Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-2641

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A weakness has been identified in universal-ctags ctags up to 6.2.1. The affected element is the function parseExpression/parseExprList of the file parsers/v.c ...

MiracleLinux 8 : emacs-26.1-9.el8 (AXSA:2023-5965:05)

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2023-5965:05 advisory. emacs: ctags local command execution vulnerability CVE-2022-45939 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux securi...

MiracleLinux 9 : emacs-27.2-8.el9 (AXSA:2023-5619:03)

The remote MiracleLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2023-5619:03 advisory. emacs: ctags local command execution vulnerability CVE-2022-45939 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux securi...

Amazon Linux AMI : ctags (ALAS-2025-1974)

The version of ctags installed on the remote host is prior to 5.8-2.7. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2025-1974 advisory. A flaw was found in Exuberant Ctags in the way it handles the -o option. This option specifies the tag filename. A crafted tag filenam...

RHEL 8 : emacs (RHSA-2023:3042)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:3042 advisory. GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting text editor. It provides special code editing features, a scripting language elisp, and the...

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-45939

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...

exuberant-ctags creates temporary files insecurely

Overview Some versions of exuberant-ctags, a source code navigation utility, create and use temporary files insecurely, leading to local file corruption and possible denial-of-service. Description Exuberent-ctags is a source code navigation utility. It creates temporary files with predictable nam...