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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882770
Category:CentOS Local Security Checks
Title:CentOS Update for emacs CESA-2017:2771 centos7
Summary:Check the version of emacs
Description:Summary:
Check the version of emacs

Vulnerability Insight:
GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable,
self-documenting text editor. It provides special code editing features,
a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read e-mail and news.

Security Fix(es):

* A command injection flaw within the Emacs 'enriched mode' handling has
been discovered. By tricking an unsuspecting user into opening a specially
crafted file using Emacs, a remote attacker could exploit this flaw to
execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the Emacs user.
(CVE-2017-14482)

Affected Software/OS:
emacs on CentOS 7

Solution:
Please Install the Updated Packages.

CVSS Score:
6.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-14482
Debian Security Information: DSA-3970 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3970
Debian Security Information: DSA-3975 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3975
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-07
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2017:2771
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2771
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG

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