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 Gnus support for enriched and richtext inline MIME objects in lisp/gnus/mm-view.el. In particular, an Emacs user can be instantly compromised by reading a crafted email message (or Usenet news article).

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - emacs: command injection flaw within enriched mode handling (CVE-2017-14482)

  - vcdiff in Emacs 20.7 to 22.1.50, when used with SCCS, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via     a symlink attack on temporary files. (CVE-2008-1694)

  - Emacs 21 and XEmacs automatically load and execute .flc (fast lock) files that are associated with other     files that are edited within Emacs, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2008-2142)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - emacs: command injection flaw within enriched mode handling (CVE-2017-14482)

  - 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. (CVE-2014-3421)

  - lisp/emacs-lisp/find-gc.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files     via a symlink attack on a temporary file under /tmp/esrc/. (CVE-2014-3422)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

According to the version of the emacs package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - A command injection flaw within the Emacs 'enriched     mode' handling has been discovered. By tricking an     unsuspecting user into opening a specially crafted file     using Emacs, a remote attacker could exploit this flaw     to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of     the Emacs user.(CVE-2017-14482)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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.

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) :

* A command injection flaw within the Emacs 'enriched mode' handling has been discovered. By tricking an unsuspecting user into opening a specially crafted file using Emacs, a remote attacker could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the Emacs user. (CVE-2017-14482)

Note that Tenable Network Security has attempted to extract the preceding description block directly from the corresponding Red Hat security advisory. Virtuozzo provides no description for VZLSA advisories. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Rebuilt against new ImageMagick

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rhbz#1490649 - emacs-25.3 is available

rhbz#1490410 - unsafe enriched mode translations (security)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201801-07 (GNU Emacs: Command injection)

    A command injection flaw within the Emacs &ldquo;enriched mode&rdquo; handling       has been discovered.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a specially crafted file,       could execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of process.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Command injection flaw within 'enriched mode' handling :

A command injection flaw within the Emacs 'enriched mode' handling has been discovered. By tricking an unsuspecting user into opening a specially crafted file using Emacs, a remote attacker could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the Emacs user. (CVE-2017-14482)

According to the version of the emacs packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - A command injection flaw within the Emacs 'enriched     mode' handling has been discovered. By tricking an     unsuspecting user into opening a specially crafted file     using Emacs, a remote attacker could exploit this flaw     to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of     the Emacs user. (CVE-2017-14482)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Charles A. Roelli discovered that Emacs incorrectly handled certain files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file (e.g., email messages in gnus), an attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3427-1 advisory.

    Charles A. Roelli discovered that Emacs incorrectly handled certain files. If a user were tricked into     opening a specially crafted file (e.g., email messages in gnus), an attacker could possibly use this to     execute arbitrary code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Charles A. Roelli discovered that Emacs is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution when rendering text/enriched MIME data (e.g. when using Emacs-based mail clients).

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 23.4+1-4+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your emacs23 packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for emacs fixes one issues. This security issue was fixed :

  - CVE-2017-14482: Remote code execution via mails with     'Content-Type: text/enriched' (bsc#1058425)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for emacs fixes one issues.

This security issue was fixed :

  - CVE-2017-14482: Remote code execution via mails with     'Content-Type: text/enriched' (bsc#1058425)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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.

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) :

* A command injection flaw within the Emacs 'enriched mode' handling has been discovered. By tricking an unsuspecting user into opening a specially crafted file using Emacs, a remote attacker could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the Emacs user. (CVE-2017-14482)

Security Fix(es) :

  - A command injection flaw within the Emacs 'enriched     mode' handling has been discovered. By tricking an     unsuspecting user into opening a specially crafted file     using Emacs, a remote attacker could exploit this flaw     to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the     Emacs user. (CVE-2017-14482)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:2771 advisory.

    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):

    * A command injection flaw within the Emacs enriched mode handling has been discovered. By tricking an     unsuspecting user into opening a specially crafted file using Emacs, a remote attacker could exploit this     flaw to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the Emacs user. (CVE-2017-14482)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2017-2771 advisory.

    [1:24.3-20]
    - fix unsafe enriched mode translations (#1490452)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Many security fixes, bug fixes, and other changes from the previous version 6.9.3.0. See the [6.9 branch ChangeLog](https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/blob/3fd358e2ac3 4977fda38a2cf4d88a1cb4dd2d7c7/ChangeLog).

Dependent packages are mostly straight rebuilds, a couple also include bugfix version updates.

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rhbz#1490649 - emacs-25.3 is available

rhbz#1490410 - unsafe enriched mode translations (security)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Charles A. Roelli discovered that Emacs is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution when rendering text/enriched MIME data (e.g. when using Emacs-based mail clients).

rhbz#1490649 - emacs-25.3 is available

rhbz#1490410 - unsafe enriched mode translations (security)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
198414	RHEL 5 : emacs (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
198356	RHEL 6 : emacs (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
196110	RHEL 6 : emacs (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
196100	RHEL 5 : emacs (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
124884	EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : emacs (EulerOS-SA-2019-1381)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
119225	Virtuozzo 7 : emacs / emacs-common / emacs-el / emacs-filesystem / etc (VZLSA-2017-2771)	Nessus	Virtuozzo Local Security Checks	high
105856	Fedora 27 : 1:emacs (2017-36893b0ea3)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
105633	GLSA-201801-07 : GNU Emacs: Command injection	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
103825	Amazon Linux AMI : emacs (ALAS-2017-912)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
103738	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : emacs (EulerOS-SA-2017-1236)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
103737	EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : emacs (EulerOS-SA-2017-1235)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
103418	Ubuntu 17.04 : emacs25 vulnerability (USN-3428-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
103417	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Emacs vulnerability (USN-3427-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
103388	Debian DLA-1101-1 : emacs23 security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
103370	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : emacs (SUSE-SU-2017:2532-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
103369	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : emacs (SUSE-SU-2017:2529-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
103368	openSUSE Security Update : emacs (openSUSE-2017-1078)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
103362	CentOS 7 : emacs (CESA-2017:2771)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
103353	Scientific Linux Security Update : emacs on SL7.x x86_64 (20170919)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	high
103352	RHEL 7 : emacs (RHSA-2017:2771)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
103347	Oracle Linux 7 : emacs (ELSA-2017-2771)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
103333	Fedora 25 : 1:emacs / ImageMagick / WindowMaker / autotrace / converseen / etc (2017-3a568adb31)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
103260	Debian DSA-3975-1 : emacs25 - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
103200	Fedora 26 : 1:emacs (2017-a1dc0ef38c)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
103147	Debian DSA-3970-1 : emacs24 - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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