| Name | CVE-2023-2491 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| emacs (PTS) | buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1:26.1+1-3.2+deb10u6 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 1:27.1+1-3.1+deb11u5 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 1:28.2+1-15+deb12u3 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:29.4+1-3 | fixed |
| emacs24 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 24.4+1-5+deb8u5 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 24.5+1-11+deb9u1 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 24.5+1-11+deb9u5 | fixed |
| emacs25 (PTS) | stretch (security) | 25.1+1-4+deb9u1 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 25.1+1-4+deb9u5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| emacs | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
| emacs24 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
| emacs25 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- emacs <not-affected> (Red Hat specific security regression from CVE-2023-28617 patches)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2192873
- emacs24 <not-affected> (Red Hat specific security regression from CVE-2023-28617 patches)
- emacs25 <not-affected> (Red Hat specific security regression from CVE-2023-28617 patches)