vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-48339: Security patch for emacs (ALAS-2023-1712)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2023-02-20
Added
2023-04-06
Modified
2025-05-21

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

amazon-linux-upgrade-emacs
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