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Virtuozzo 7 : emacs / emacs-common / emacs-el / emacs-filesystem / etc (VZLSA-2017-2771)

high Nessus Plugin ID 119225

Synopsis

The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.

Description

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.

Solution

Update the affected emacs / emacs-common / emacs-el / emacs-filesystem / etc package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?da71d2f6

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2771

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 119225

File Name: Virtuozzo_VZLSA-2017-2771.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 11/27/2018

Updated: 7/18/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-14482

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:emacs, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:emacs-nox, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:emacs-common, cpe:/o:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:7, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:emacs-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:emacs-terminal, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:emacs-el

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Virtuozzo/release, Host/Virtuozzo/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/20/2017

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14482