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High ALAS2-2023-1928 1 CVE

Important: emacs security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jan 30, 2023 · Updated Feb 4, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-45939: 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.

Fixed packages 8

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 emacs 1:27.2-4.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 emacs-common 1:27.2-4.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 emacs-debuginfo 1:27.2-4.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 emacs-devel 1:27.2-4.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 emacs-filesystem 1:27.2-4.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 emacs-lucid 1:27.2-4.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 emacs-nox 1:27.2-4.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 emacs-terminal 1:27.2-4.amzn2.0.2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-45939.html