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High ALAS2-2023-2012 1 CVE

Important: emacs security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Apr 13, 2023 · Updated Apr 20, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-28617: org-babel-execute:latex in ob-latex.el in Org Mode through 9.6.1 for GNU Emacs allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a file name or directory name that contains shell metacharacters.

Fixed packages 8

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 emacs 1:27.2-4.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 emacs-common 1:27.2-4.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 emacs-debuginfo 1:27.2-4.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 emacs-devel 1:27.2-4.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 emacs-filesystem 1:27.2-4.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 emacs-lucid 1:27.2-4.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 emacs-nox 1:27.2-4.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 emacs-terminal 1:27.2-4.amzn2.0.4

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-28617.html