Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 17, 2023· Updated Jan 22, 2025
CVE-2023-2491
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.
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7- Emacs/Emacs text editordescription
- osv-coords6 versionspkg:rpm/almalinux/emacspkg:rpm/almalinux/emacs-commonpkg:rpm/almalinux/emacs-filesystempkg:rpm/almalinux/emacs-lucidpkg:rpm/almalinux/emacs-noxpkg:rpm/almalinux/emacs-terminal
< 1:27.2-8.el9_2.1+ 5 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1:27.2-8.el9_2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1:27.2-8.el9_2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1:27.2-8.el9_2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1:27.2-8.el9_2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1:27.2-8.el9_2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1:26.1-10.el8_8.2
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