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High ALAS2023-2023-122 3 CVEs

Important: emacs security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Mar 6, 2023 · Updated Sep 9, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-48339: An issue was discovered in GNU Emacs through 28.2. htmlfontify.el has a command injection vulnerability. In the hfy-istext-command function, the parameter file and parameter srcdir come from external input, and parameters are not escaped. If a file name or directory name contains shell metacharacters, code may be executed. CVE-2022-48338: An issue was discovered in GNU Emacs through 28.2. In ruby-mode.el, the ruby-find-library-file function has a local command injection vulnerability. The ruby-find-library-file function is an interactive function, and bound to C-c C-f. Inside the function, the external command gem is called through shell-command-to-string, but the feature-name parameters are not escaped. Thus, malicious Ruby source files may cause commands to be executed. CVE-2022-48337: 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 etags program. For example, a victim may use the "etags -u *" command (suggested in the etags documentation) in a situation where the current working directory has contents that depend on untrusted input.

Fixed packages 12

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 emacs 1:28.2-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 emacs-common 1:28.2-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 emacs-common-debuginfo 1:28.2-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 emacs-debuginfo 1:28.2-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 emacs-debugsource 1:28.2-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 emacs-devel 1:28.2-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 emacs-filesystem 1:28.2-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 emacs-lucid 1:28.2-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 emacs-lucid-debuginfo 1:28.2-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 emacs-nox 1:28.2-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 emacs-nox-debuginfo 1:28.2-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 emacs-terminal 1:28.2-3.amzn2023.0.3

Vulnerabilities 3

References

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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-48337.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-48338.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-48339.html