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Alma Linux: CVE-2022-48339: Important: emacs security update (ALSA-2023-2626)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2022-48339: Important: emacs security update (ALSA-2023-2626)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/20/2023
Created
05/15/2023
Added
05/15/2023
Modified
04/24/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-emacs
  • alma-upgrade-emacs-common
  • alma-upgrade-emacs-filesystem
  • alma-upgrade-emacs-lucid
  • alma-upgrade-emacs-nox

References

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