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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Moderate: emacs security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2023:7083-01
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7083
Issue date:         2023-11-14
Revision:           01
CVE Names:          CVE-2022-48337
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Summary: 

An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.




Description:

GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting text editor. It provides special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read e-mail and news.

Security Fix(es):

* emacs: command execution via shell metacharacters (CVE-2022-48337)

* emacs: command injection vulnerability in htmlfontify.el (CVE-2022-48339)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.


Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258



CVEs:

CVE-2022-48337

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.9_release_notes/index
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2171987
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2171989