RHEL 8 : emacs (RHSA-2024:4971)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 204951

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4971 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):

* emacs: org-link-expand-abbrev: Do not evaluate arbitrary unsafe Elisp code (CVE-2024-39331)

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.

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.

Solution

Update the RHEL emacs package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:4971.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 204951

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-4971.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/1/2024

Updated: 11/8/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-39331

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:rhel_tus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:emacs-nox, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:emacs, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.6, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:emacs-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:emacs-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:emacs-terminal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:emacs-lucid

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: 8/1/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/23/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-39331

CWE: 95

RHSA: 2024:4971

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