RedHat: RHSA-2023-2366:01 Moderate: emacs
Summary
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: ctags local command execution vulnerability (CVE-2022-45939)
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 9.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Summary
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
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-45939 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.2_release_notes/index
Package List
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source:
emacs-27.2-8.el9.src.rpm
aarch64:
emacs-27.2-8.el9.aarch64.rpm
emacs-common-27.2-8.el9.aarch64.rpm
emacs-common-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.aarch64.rpm
emacs-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.aarch64.rpm
emacs-debugsource-27.2-8.el9.aarch64.rpm
emacs-lucid-27.2-8.el9.aarch64.rpm
emacs-lucid-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.aarch64.rpm
emacs-nox-27.2-8.el9.aarch64.rpm
emacs-nox-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.aarch64.rpm
noarch:
emacs-filesystem-27.2-8.el9.noarch.rpm
ppc64le:
emacs-27.2-8.el9.ppc64le.rpm
emacs-common-27.2-8.el9.ppc64le.rpm
emacs-common-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.ppc64le.rpm
emacs-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.ppc64le.rpm
emacs-debugsource-27.2-8.el9.ppc64le.rpm
emacs-lucid-27.2-8.el9.ppc64le.rpm
emacs-lucid-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.ppc64le.rpm
emacs-nox-27.2-8.el9.ppc64le.rpm
emacs-nox-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
emacs-27.2-8.el9.s390x.rpm
emacs-common-27.2-8.el9.s390x.rpm
emacs-common-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.s390x.rpm
emacs-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.s390x.rpm
emacs-debugsource-27.2-8.el9.s390x.rpm
emacs-lucid-27.2-8.el9.s390x.rpm
emacs-lucid-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.s390x.rpm
emacs-nox-27.2-8.el9.s390x.rpm
emacs-nox-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
emacs-27.2-8.el9.x86_64.rpm
emacs-common-27.2-8.el9.x86_64.rpm
emacs-common-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.x86_64.rpm
emacs-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.x86_64.rpm
emacs-debugsource-27.2-8.el9.x86_64.rpm
emacs-lucid-27.2-8.el9.x86_64.rpm
emacs-lucid-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.x86_64.rpm
emacs-nox-27.2-8.el9.x86_64.rpm
emacs-nox-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.x86_64.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/
Topic
An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Bugs Fixed
1979804 - emacs: portable dumper incompatible with 64K pages on aarch64
2006856 - RPM inspection failure about hardening binaries
2149380 - CVE-2022-45939 emacs: ctags local command execution vulnerability