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EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.0 : emacs (EulerOS-SA-2023-2752)

high Nessus Plugin ID 188550

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the versions of the emacs package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - org-babel-execute:latex in ob-latex.el in Org Mode through 9.6.1 for GNU Emacs allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a file name or directory name that contains shell metacharacters. (CVE-2023-28617)

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.

Solution

Update the affected emacs packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?be2c8df6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 188550

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-2752.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 1/16/2024

Updated: 1/16/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2023-28617

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:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.11.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:emacs-filesystem

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/19/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28617