vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-48337: Security patch for emacs (ALAS-2023-1712)
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
10 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Feb 20, 2023 | Apr 6, 2023 | May 21, 2025 |
Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 20, 2023
Added
Apr 6, 2023
Modified
May 21, 2025
Description
GNU Emacs through 28.2 allows attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in the name of a source-code file, because lib-src/etags.c uses the system C library function in its implementation of the etags program. For example, a victim may use the "etags -u *" command (suggested in the etags documentation) in a situation where the current working directory has contents that depend on untrusted input.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-emacs
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