cve-2023-2491
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-05-17 00:00
Modified
2025-01-22 18:23
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A flaw was found in the Emacs text editor. Processing a specially crafted org-mode code with the "org-babel-execute:latex" function in ob-latex.el can result in arbitrary command execution. This CVE exists because of a CVE-2023-28617 security regression for the emacs package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2626Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3104Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2491Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2192873Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2626Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3104Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2491Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2192873Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a emacs Version: Affects emacs v26.1-9.el8 and emacs v27.2-8.el9, Fixed in emacs v26.1-10.el8_8.2 and emacs v27.2-8.el9_2.1
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