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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2023:3189 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2023-05-17
Updated:
2023-05-17

RHSA-2023:3189 - Security Advisory

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  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

Important: emacs security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting text editor. It provides special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read e-mail and news.

Security Fix(es):

  • emacs: command injection vulnerability in org-mode (CVE-2023-28617)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2180544 - CVE-2023-28617 emacs: command injection vulnerability in org-mode

CVEs

  • CVE-2023-28617

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1

SRPM
emacs-26.1-5.el8_1.1.src.rpm SHA-256: c7aca01073162fbeb856ba27b017f128f71388dcedb8228df46a2a87e29fde5e
ppc64le
emacs-26.1-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: bfc747956f439b53b6c2e3cced93e873d258fee5fc7afeec7853ea73676e568c
emacs-common-26.1-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 570b227e07d1e3209ae135916ac85349c5ba1729304f782d81d9dba79aed64ba
emacs-common-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 0ee756fa8dcf67b96660c0206da725485204b7cb93cc2ed0f5767a3c26083f4b
emacs-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 13f98534d5c5ad1a482af1c3560efdc06e7213ebc39030feeb5cab308b1e8dbc
emacs-debugsource-26.1-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 09ba637acd7ec84ed0208fecb42216a2d23cab350cbaf4a1f7ad145480c58f5d
emacs-filesystem-26.1-5.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 7d9f909ab595280bc1a5812daaa358730fce549b7a859c85d37effbaaf232e5d
emacs-lucid-26.1-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 1fcdbcaa3501ddc43f62b96dff360603164f3642330a46f171adbd626d859e2a
emacs-lucid-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 954c515531e7f2c309bb8421669762df995491688c22f85053da4f3081476e22
emacs-nox-26.1-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: dfcc9189d27c1701b11b7a33e2dd100f00c1ba812b5567d3804f202baf771ea5
emacs-nox-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 72ec5262d8a696a881322838e794521518e92429732f68a938be9dd05a00c2fc
emacs-terminal-26.1-5.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 818b516f34fffa5e4b28aeee2385930781e520b2b57e8e7317108e715ec375fb

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1

SRPM
emacs-26.1-5.el8_1.1.src.rpm SHA-256: c7aca01073162fbeb856ba27b017f128f71388dcedb8228df46a2a87e29fde5e
x86_64
emacs-26.1-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c7864cc5b0ec315fcab4e174635fe90ddf590a59bd80324fc3cf1219bf7b0f37
emacs-common-26.1-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 0facdbc3314266bd5b1b49bce80fe9eb25a5e73f0c3438e9a38b444d210615ed
emacs-common-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1ab98d3197410ed979b3c841263969fc62ec6b6dd0f5992f94fc41aaaa601619
emacs-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 32ea77b974ccce8e06ff75aa0c936faa6be8b7305b6e4582cf49297807c984e4
emacs-debugsource-26.1-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6e6eaa4b02c10bf6917990fa1ebf62e4f17b1a5ca553098487effbef11611661
emacs-filesystem-26.1-5.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 7d9f909ab595280bc1a5812daaa358730fce549b7a859c85d37effbaaf232e5d
emacs-lucid-26.1-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ad169c6a678cc49c398c40dd17600025a0b2608b761756a46c3552b832e73fb3
emacs-lucid-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f0109c7518141179352b7e67e78b5d0426fa3f72d9d145ea3a1c20affdf9deb6
emacs-nox-26.1-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95b8d2f1f3f9d5ae2447650de0fb68b66cc27354f0664a9cf69f632d0021609c
emacs-nox-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 7e6a85695e8c9731a49f5b3c6b91866ed82cd910db794d8bff0d194fc0b6d616
emacs-terminal-26.1-5.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 818b516f34fffa5e4b28aeee2385930781e520b2b57e8e7317108e715ec375fb

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