GNU Emacs: Command injection

GNU Emacs: Command injection A vulnerability has been found in Emacs which may allow for arbitrary command execution. Emacs 2018-01-07 2018-01-08 630680 remote 23.4-r16 24.5-r4 25.2-r1 23.4-r16 24.5-r4 25.2-r1

GNU Emacs is a highly extensible and customizable text editor.

A command injection flaw within the Emacs “enriched mode” handling has been discovered.

A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a specially crafted file, could execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of process.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All GNU Emacs 23.x users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-editors/emacs-23.4-r16:23"

All GNU Emacs 24.x users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-editors/emacs-24.5-r4:24"

All GNU Emacs 25.x users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-editors/emacs-25.2-r1:25"

CVE-2017-14482 jmbailey jmbailey