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Medium ALSA-2023:7083 2 CVEs

Moderate: emacs security update

Published Nov 14, 2023 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

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: command execution via shell metacharacters (CVE-2022-48337)
* emacs: command injection vulnerability in htmlfontify.el (CVE-2022-48339)

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 AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 emacs 1:26.1-11.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 emacs-common 1:26.1-11.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 emacs-filesystem 1:26.1-11.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 emacs-lucid 1:26.1-11.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 emacs-nox 1:26.1-11.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 emacs-terminal 1:26.1-11.el8

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-48337
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-48339
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2171987
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2171989
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2023-7083.html