CVE-2022-48338

An issue was discovered in GNU Emacs through 28.2. In ruby-mode.el, the ruby-find-library-file function has a local command injection vulnerability. The ruby-find-library-file function is an interactive function, and bound to C-c C-f. Inside the function, the external command gem is called throug...

CVE-2022-48337

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 etags program. For example, a victim may use the "etags -u " command suggested in the eta...

CVE-2022-48339

An issue was discovered in GNU Emacs through 28.2. htmlfontify.el has a command injection vulnerability. In the hfy-istext-command function, the parameter file and parameter srcdir come from external input, and parameters are not escaped. If a file name or directory name contains shell...

CVE-2022-48338

An issue was discovered in GNU Emacs through 28.2. In ruby-mode.el, the ruby-find-library-file function has a local command injection vulnerability. The ruby-find-library-file function is an interactive function, and bound to C-c C-f. Inside the function, the external command gem is called throug...

CVE-2022-48337

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 etags program. For example, a victim may use the "etags -u " command suggested in the eta...

SUSE CVE-2014-3421

lisp/gnus/gnus-fun.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/gnus.face.ppm temporary file...

SUSE CVE-2017-14482

GNU Emacs before 25.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via email with crafted "Content-Type: text/enriched" data containing an x-display XML element that specifies execution of shell commands, related to an unsafe text/enriched extension in lisp/textmodes/enriched.el, and unsafe...

EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : emacs (EulerOS-SA-2023-1354)

According to the versions of the emacs package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - 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 us...

EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : emacs (EulerOS-SA-2023-1382)

According to the versions of the emacs package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - 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 us...

Amazon Linux 2 : emacs, emacs-common, emacs-devel (ALAS-2023-1928)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-1928 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...

Amazon Linux 2022 : emacs, emacs-common, emacs-devel (ALAS2022-2023-277)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2022-2023-277 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 o...

Debian DSA-5314-1 : emacs - security update

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5314 advisory. It was discovered that missing input sanitising in the ctags functionality of Emacs may result in the execution of arbitrary shell commands. For the stable distribution...

Fedora 36 : emacs (2022-e37f239f2e)

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-e37f239f2e advisory. Update to Emacs 28.2 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested for th...

Debian dla-3257 : emacs - security update

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3257 advisory. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3257-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2022-0457)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Emacs vulnerability (USN-5781-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5781-1 advisory. It was discovered that Emacs did not properly manage certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. Tenable has extracte...

Updated emacs packages fix security vulnerability

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...

emacs -- multiple vulnerabilities

Xi Lu reports: CVE-2022-48337 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 etags program. For example, a victim may use the "etags -u ...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : emacs (SUSE-SU-2022:4310-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLEDSAP15 / SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:4310-1 advisory. - CVE-2022-45939: Fixed shell command injection via source code files when using ctags bsc1205822. Tenabl...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : emacs (SUSE-SU-2022:4304-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLEDSAP15 / SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:4304-1 advisory. - CVE-2022-45939: Fixed shell command injection via source code files when using ctags bsc1205822. Tenabl...