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


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-EMACSNOX-1526110
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed19 Oct 2018

Introduced: 19 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18544  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 emacs-nox 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-nox package and not the emacs-nox package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is a memory leak in the function WriteMSLImage of coders/msl.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-13 Q16, and the function ProcessMSLScript of coders/msl.c in GraphicsMagick before 1.3.31.