Resource Exhaustion Affecting emacs package, versions <1:24.3-23.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.7% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-EMACS-2163109
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed17 Jan 2019

Introduced: 17 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-7397  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:7 emacs to version 1:24.3-23.el7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream emacs package and not the emacs package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

In ImageMagick before 7.0.8-25 and GraphicsMagick through 1.3.31, several memory leaks exist in WritePDFImage in coders/pdf.c.

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