RHEL 7 : emacs (RHSA-2023:3481)

high Nessus Plugin ID 176770

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for emacs.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:3481 advisory.

- emacs: command injection vulnerability in htmlfontify.el (CVE-2022-48339)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL emacs package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:3481.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e1e3da90

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2171989

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3481

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 176770

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-3481.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/6/2023

Updated: 4/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-48339

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/6/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/20/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48339

CWE: 77

RHSA: 2023:3481