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

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-48339: 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

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)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-emacs

References

  • ALAS-2023-1712
  • CVE-2022-48339

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