CVE-2024-53920 Affecting etags package, versions <27.2-150400.3.20.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-ETAGS-8547759
  • published21 Dec 2024
  • disclosed20 Dec 2024

Introduced: 20 Dec 2024

NewCVE-2024-53920  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 etags to version 27.2-150400.3.20.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream etags package and not the etags package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

In elisp-mode.el in GNU Emacs through 30.0.92, a user who chooses to invoke elisp-completion-at-point (for code completion) on untrusted Emacs Lisp source code can trigger unsafe Lisp macro expansion that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code. (This unsafe expansion also occurs if a user chooses to enable on-the-fly diagnosis that byte compiles untrusted Emacs Lisp source code.)

CVSS Scores

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