The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has GNU Emacs through 28.2 with a vulnerability in etags.c, allowing attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in the name of a source-code file
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 119 |
---|---|---|---|---|
UbuntuCve | CVE-2022-45939 | 28 Nov 202200:00 | – | ubuntucve |
Oracle linux | emacs security and bug fix update | 15 May 202300:00 | – | oraclelinux |
Oracle linux | emacs security and bug fix update | 24 May 202300:00 | – | oraclelinux |
Fedora | [SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: emacs-28.2-1.fc37 | 3 Jan 202301:25 | – | fedora |
Fedora | [SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: emacs-28.2-1.fc36 | 11 Jan 202301:35 | – | fedora |
OpenVAS | Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-3257-1) | 1 Jan 202300:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5781-1) | 15 Dec 202200:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for emacs (EulerOS-SA-2023-1887) | 16 May 202300:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for emacs (EulerOS-SA-2023-1582) | 23 Mar 202300:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for emacs (EulerOS-SA-2023-1382) | 10 Feb 202300:00 | – | openvas |
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# AlmaLinux Security Advisory ALSA-2023:3042.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(176168);
script_version("1.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/05/20");
script_cve_id("CVE-2022-45939");
script_xref(name:"ALSA", value:"2023:3042");
script_name(english:"AlmaLinux 8 : emacs (ALSA-2023:3042)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
ALSA-2023:3042 advisory.
- GNU Emacs through 28.2 allows attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in the name of a
source-code file, because lib-src/etags.c uses the system C library function in its implementation of the
ctags program. For example, a victim may use the ctags * command (suggested in the ctags documentation)
in a situation where the current working directory has contents that depend on untrusted input.
(CVE-2022-45939)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2023-3042.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2022-45939");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_cwe_id(78);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2022/11/28");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/05/16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/05/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:emacs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:emacs-common");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:emacs-filesystem");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:emacs-lucid");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:emacs-nox");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:emacs-terminal");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::appstream");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::baseos");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::highavailability");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::nfv");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::powertools");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::realtime");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::resilientstorage");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap_hana");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::supplementary");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Alma Linux Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AlmaLinux/release", "Host/AlmaLinux/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/AlmaLinux/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'AlmaLinux' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'AlmaLinux');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "AlmaLinux release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'AlmaLinux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^8([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'AlmaLinux 8.x', 'AlmaLinux ' + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/AlmaLinux/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'AlmaLinux', cpu);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'emacs-26.1-9.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'},
{'reference':'emacs-26.1-9.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'},
{'reference':'emacs-common-26.1-9.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'},
{'reference':'emacs-common-26.1-9.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'},
{'reference':'emacs-filesystem-26.1-9.el8', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'},
{'reference':'emacs-lucid-26.1-9.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'},
{'reference':'emacs-lucid-26.1-9.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'},
{'reference':'emacs-nox-26.1-9.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'},
{'reference':'emacs-nox-26.1-9.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'},
{'reference':'emacs-terminal-26.1-9.el8', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
var reference = NULL;
var _release = NULL;
var sp = NULL;
var _cpu = NULL;
var el_string = NULL;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
var epoch = NULL;
var allowmaj = NULL;
var exists_check = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = 'Alma-' + package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
if (reference && _release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'emacs / emacs-common / emacs-filesystem / emacs-lucid / emacs-nox / etc');
}
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