Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting emacs package, versions <1:26.1-7.el8_6.1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.07% (31st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-EMACS-5458130
- published 24 Mar 2023
- disclosed 19 Mar 2023
Introduced: 19 Mar 2023
CVE-2023-28617 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:8 emacs to version 1:26.1-7.el8_6.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:1931.
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:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
org-babel-execute:latex in ob-latex.el in Org Mode through 9.6.1 for GNU Emacs allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a file name or directory name that contains shell metacharacters.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28617
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=8f8ec2ccf3f5ef8f38d68ec84a7e4739c45db485
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=a8006ea580ed74f27f974d60b598143b04ad1741
- https://list.orgmode.org/tencent_04CF842704737012CCBCD63CD654DD41CA0A@qq.com/T/#m6ef8e7d34b25fe17b4cbb655b161edce18c6655e
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00008.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00019.html
- https://list.orgmode.org/tencent_04CF842704737012CCBCD63CD654DD41CA0A%40qq.com/T/#m6ef8e7d34b25fe17b4cbb655b161edce18c6655e
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