Alpine: multiple emacs packages: security update to 25.2-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400808

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- GNU Emacs before 25.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via email with crafted "Content-
Type: text/enriched" data containing an x-display XML element that specifies execution of shell commands,
related to an unsafe text/enriched extension in lisp/textmodes/enriched.el, and unsafe Gnus support for
enriched and richtext inline MIME objects in lisp/gnus/mm-view.el. In particular, an Emacs user can be
instantly compromised by reading a crafted email message (or Usenet news article). (CVE-2017-14482)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400808

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-14482

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/25/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2017

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14482

BID: 100873

Detections

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