Uncaught Exception Affecting emacs-nox package, versions <1:24.3-23.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.96% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-EMACSNOX-8012682
  • published17 Sept 2024
  • disclosed14 Apr 2019

Introduced: 14 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-11472  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-248  (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.

ReadXWDImage in coders/xwd.c in the XWD image parsing component of ImageMagick 7.0.8-41 Q16 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (divide-by-zero error) by crafting an XWD image file in which the header indicates neither LSB first nor MSB first.