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Improper Input Validation Affecting emacs-nox package, versions *

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    3.13% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL6-EMACSNOX-1367539
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 4 Sep 2017
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Introduced: 4 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14482 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-20 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 emacs-nox.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream emacs-nox package and not the emacs-nox package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

GNU Emacs before 25.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via email with crafted "Content-Type: text/enriched" data containing an x-display XML element that specifies execution of shell commands, related to an unsafe text/enriched extension in lisp/textmodes/enriched.el, and unsafe Gnus support for enriched and richtext inline MIME objects in lisp/gnus/mm-view.el. In particular, an Emacs user can be instantly compromised by reading a crafted email message (or Usenet news article).