A vulnerability has been found in Emacs which may allow for arbitrary command execution.
Package | app-editors/emacs on all architectures |
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Affected versions | < 23.4-r16 < 24.5-r4 < 25.2-r1 |
Unaffected versions | >= 23.4-r16 >= 24.5-r4 >= 25.2-r1 |
GNU Emacs is a highly extensible and customizable text editor.
A command injection flaw within the Emacs “enriched mode” handling has been discovered.
A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a specially crafted file, could execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of process.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All GNU Emacs 23.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-editors/emacs-23.4-r16:23"
All GNU Emacs 24.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-editors/emacs-24.5-r4:24"
All GNU Emacs 25.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-editors/emacs-25.2-r1:25"
Release date
January 07, 2018
Latest revision
January 08, 2018: 2
Severity
normal
Exploitable
remote
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