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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-48337: Security patch for emacs (ALAS-2023-1712)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-48337: Security patch for emacs (ALAS-2023-1712)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/20/2023
Created
05/05/2023
Added
04/06/2023
Modified
04/06/2023

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(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-emacs

References

  • ALAS-2023-1712
  • CVE-2022-48337

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