Alma Linux: CVE-2022-48339: Moderate: emacs security update (Multiple Advisories)

Alma Linux: CVE-2022-48339: Moderate: emacs security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity

7

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

02/20/2023

Created

05/15/2023

Added

05/15/2023

Modified

01/28/2025

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.

Solution(s)

• alma-upgrade-emacs
• alma-upgrade-emacs-common
• alma-upgrade-emacs-filesystem
• alma-upgrade-emacs-lucid
• alma-upgrade-emacs-nox
• alma-upgrade-emacs-terminal

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2022-48339
• CVE - 2022-48339
• https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2023-7083.html
• https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-2626.html