RHSA-2024:1103MediumCVSS 7.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: emacs security update

Published
March 5, 2024
Last Modified
November 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (3)

CVE-2022-48337 →CVE-2022-48339 →CVE-2022-45939 →

📋 Description

CVE-2022-45939 — emacs: ctags local command execution vulnerability CVE-2022-48337 — emacs: command execution via shell metacharacters CVE-2022-48339 — emacs: command injection vulnerability in htmlfontify.el

🎯 Affected products41

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-common-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-common-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-common-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-common-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-common-debuginfo-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-common-debuginfo-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-common-debuginfo-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-common-debuginfo-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-debuginfo-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-debuginfo-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-debuginfo-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-debuginfo-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-debugsource-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-debugsource-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-debugsource-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-debugsource-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-filesystem-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-lucid-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-lucid-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-lucid-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-lucid-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-lucid-debuginfo-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • emacs-lucid-debuginfo-1:26.1-7.el8_6.3.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: Do not run Etags with untrusted input, in an untrusted directory or set of files, for example.

🔗 References (6)