| Name | CVE-2023-28617 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3416-1, DLA-3616-1, ELA-858-1, ELA-861-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 1033341, 1033342 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| emacs (PTS) | buster | 1:26.1+1-3.2+deb10u2 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 1:26.1+1-3.2+deb10u5 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:27.1+1-3.1+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 1:27.1+1-3.1+deb11u2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1:28.2+1-15 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:29.3+1-2 | fixed |
| emacs24 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 24.4+1-5+deb8u2 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 24.5+1-11+deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 24.5+1-11+deb9u3 | fixed |
| emacs25 (PTS) | stretch (security) | 25.1+1-4+deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 25.1+1-4+deb9u3 | fixed |
| org-mode (PTS) | jessie | 8.2.10-1 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 9.0.3-2 | vulnerable |
| buster | 9.1.14+dfsg-3 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 9.1.14+dfsg-3+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 9.4.0+dfsg-1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 9.5.2+dfsh-5 | fixed |
| trixie | 9.6.23+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| sid | 9.6.28+dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bullseye] - emacs <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://list.orgmode.org/tencent_04CF842704737012CCBCD63CD654DD41CA0A%40qq.com/T/#m6ef8e7d34b25fe17b4cbb655b161edce18c6655e
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=8f8ec2ccf3f5ef8f38d68ec84a7e4739c45db485 (release_9.6.2)
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=a8006ea580ed74f27f974d60b598143b04ad1741 (release_9.6.2)
org-mode/9.5.2+dfsh-5 dropped all lisp files from the produced binary packages
making an empty dependency package only thus considered fixed exceptionally in
that version.