Important: emacs

Issue Overview:

In Emacs before 29.3, Gnus treats inline MIME contents as trusted. (CVE-2024-30203)

In Emacs before 29.3, LaTeX preview is enabled by default for e-mail attachments. (CVE-2024-30204)

In Emacs before 29.3, Org mode considers contents of remote files to be trusted. This affects Org Mode before 9.6.23. (CVE-2024-30205)

In Emacs before 29.4, org-link-expand-abbrev in lisp/ol.el expands a %(…) link abbrev even when it specifies an unsafe function, such as shell-command-to-string. This affects Org Mode before 9.7.5. (CVE-2024-39331)

Affected Packages:

emacs

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update emacs to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    emacs-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    emacs-lucid-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    emacs-nox-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    emacs-common-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    emacs-devel-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    emacs-debuginfo-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    emacs-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    emacs-lucid-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    emacs-nox-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    emacs-common-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    emacs-devel-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    emacs-debuginfo-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.i686  
  
noarch:  
    emacs-terminal-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.noarch  
    emacs-filesystem-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.noarch  
  
src:  
    emacs-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.src  
  
x86_64:  
    emacs-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    emacs-lucid-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    emacs-nox-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    emacs-common-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    emacs-devel-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    emacs-debuginfo-27.2-4.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2024-30203, CVE-2024-30204, CVE-2024-30205, CVE-2024-39331

Mitre: CVE-2024-30203, CVE-2024-30204, CVE-2024-30205, CVE-2024-39331