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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.94% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-EMACS-1525631
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed8 Aug 2017

Introduced: 8 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-12806  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 emacs to version 1:24.3-23.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:1180.

NVD Description

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

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