vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2024-53920: Security patch for emacs (ALAS-2025-2757)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 27, 2024
Added
Feb 26, 2025
Modified
Mar 14, 2025

Description

In elisp-mode.el in GNU Emacs before 30.1, 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.)

Solution(s)

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-emacsamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-emacs-commonamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-emacs-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-emacs-develamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-emacs-filesystemamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-emacs-lucidamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-emacs-noxamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-emacs-terminal
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