Advisories » MGASA-2022-0457

Updated emacs packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 13 Dec 2022
Modification date: 13 Dec 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2022-45939

Description

GNU Emacs through 28.2 allows attackers to execute commands via shell
metacharacters in the name of a source-code file, because lib-src/etags.c
uses the system C library function in its implementation of the ctags
program. For example, a victim may use the "ctags *" command (suggested in
the ctags documentation) in a situation where the current working
directory has contents that depend on untrusted input. (CVE-2022-45939)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31211
• https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2022-December/013180.html
• https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/MU2KN46JJ6TL6CR5QN3O4AZXDYE35Z7A/
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-45939

SRPMS

8/core

• emacs-27.1-1.2.mga8