-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: emacs security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:2771-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2771 Issue date: 2017-09-19 CVE Names: CVE-2017-14482 ===================================================================== 1. Summary: An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch 3. 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): * A command injection flaw within the Emacs "enriched mode" handling has been discovered. By tricking an unsuspecting user into opening a specially crafted file using Emacs, a remote attacker could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the Emacs user. (CVE-2017-14482) 4. Solution: For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 1490409 - CVE-2017-14482 emacs: Unsafe enriched mode translations 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7): Source: emacs-24.3-20.el7_4.src.rpm noarch: emacs-filesystem-24.3-20.el7_4.noarch.rpm x86_64: emacs-24.3-20.el7_4.x86_64.rpm emacs-common-24.3-20.el7_4.x86_64.rpm emacs-debuginfo-24.3-20.el7_4.x86_64.rpm emacs-nox-24.3-20.el7_4.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7): noarch: emacs-el-24.3-20.el7_4.noarch.rpm emacs-terminal-24.3-20.el7_4.noarch.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7): Source: emacs-24.3-20.el7_4.src.rpm noarch: emacs-filesystem-24.3-20.el7_4.noarch.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7): noarch: emacs-el-24.3-20.el7_4.noarch.rpm emacs-terminal-24.3-20.el7_4.noarch.rpm x86_64: emacs-24.3-20.el7_4.x86_64.rpm emacs-common-24.3-20.el7_4.x86_64.rpm emacs-debuginfo-24.3-20.el7_4.x86_64.rpm emacs-nox-24.3-20.el7_4.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7): Source: emacs-24.3-20.el7_4.src.rpm aarch64: emacs-24.3-20.el7_4.aarch64.rpm emacs-common-24.3-20.el7_4.aarch64.rpm emacs-debuginfo-24.3-20.el7_4.aarch64.rpm emacs-nox-24.3-20.el7_4.aarch64.rpm noarch: emacs-filesystem-24.3-20.el7_4.noarch.rpm ppc64: emacs-24.3-20.el7_4.ppc64.rpm emacs-common-24.3-20.el7_4.ppc64.rpm emacs-debuginfo-24.3-20.el7_4.ppc64.rpm emacs-nox-24.3-20.el7_4.ppc64.rpm ppc64le: emacs-24.3-20.el7_4.ppc64le.rpm emacs-common-24.3-20.el7_4.ppc64le.rpm emacs-debuginfo-24.3-20.el7_4.ppc64le.rpm emacs-nox-24.3-20.el7_4.ppc64le.rpm s390x: emacs-24.3-20.el7_4.s390x.rpm emacs-common-24.3-20.el7_4.s390x.rpm emacs-debuginfo-24.3-20.el7_4.s390x.rpm emacs-nox-24.3-20.el7_4.s390x.rpm x86_64: emacs-24.3-20.el7_4.x86_64.rpm emacs-common-24.3-20.el7_4.x86_64.rpm emacs-debuginfo-24.3-20.el7_4.x86_64.rpm emacs-nox-24.3-20.el7_4.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7): noarch: emacs-el-24.3-20.el7_4.noarch.rpm emacs-terminal-24.3-20.el7_4.noarch.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7): Source: emacs-24.3-20.el7_4.src.rpm noarch: emacs-filesystem-24.3-20.el7_4.noarch.rpm x86_64: emacs-24.3-20.el7_4.x86_64.rpm emacs-common-24.3-20.el7_4.x86_64.rpm emacs-debuginfo-24.3-20.el7_4.x86_64.rpm emacs-nox-24.3-20.el7_4.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7): noarch: emacs-el-24.3-20.el7_4.noarch.rpm emacs-terminal-24.3-20.el7_4.noarch.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/ 7. References: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14482 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2017 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iD8DBQFZwWPUXlSAg2UNWIIRApPWAKCly6au1efKHyFAKCLqlUU+zjhLhgCfUCMp s1cIsnmzjzSQdw7Hrh3zCh0= =99YZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- RHSA-announce mailing list RHSA-announce@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhsa-announce