vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2022-48339: Important priority package update for emacs

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 21, 2023
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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.
A flaw was found in the Emacs package. If a file name or directory name contains shell metacharacters, arbitrary code may be executed.

Solutions

amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-emacsamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-emacs-commonamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-emacs-common-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-emacs-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-emacs-debugsourceamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-emacs-develamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-emacs-filesystemamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-emacs-lucidamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-emacs-lucid-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-emacs-noxamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-emacs-nox-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-emacs-terminal
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