Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting emacs package, versions <1:26.1-10.el8_8.4
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- published 20 Mar 2024
- disclosed 21 Feb 2023
Introduced: 21 Feb 2023
CVE-2022-48339 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:8 emacs to version 1:26.1-10.el8_8.4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:1408.
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.
An issue was discovered in GNU Emacs through 28.2. htmlfontify.el has a command injection vulnerability. In the hfy-istext-command function, the parameter file and parameter srcdir come from external input, and parameters are not escaped. If a file name or directory name contains shell metacharacters, code may be executed.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-48339
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=1b4dc4691c1f87fc970fbe568b43869a15ad0d4c
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5360
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00008.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U6HDBUQNAH2WL4MHWCTUZLN7NGF7CHTK/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FLPQ4K6H2S5TY3L5UDN4K4B3L5RQJYQ6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FLPQ4K6H2S5TY3L5UDN4K4B3L5RQJYQ6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U6HDBUQNAH2WL4MHWCTUZLN7NGF7CHTK/