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CVE-2023-2491

Published: May 17, 2023

Modified: Jan 22, 2025

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Description

A flaw was found in the Emacs text editor. Processing a specially crafted org-mode code with the "org-babel-execute:latex" function in ob-latex.el can result in arbitrary command execution. This CVE exists because of a CVE-2023-28617 security regression for the emacs package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	emacs	affected `Affects emacs v26.1-9.el8 and emacs v27.2-8.el9, Fixed in emacs v26.1-10.el8_8.2 and emacs v27.2-8.el9_2.1`

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References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2192873

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2491

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3104

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2626

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