Alpine: multiple emacs packages: security update to 28.2-r2 (deprecated)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400047

Description

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

- GNU Emacs through 28.2 allows attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in the name of a
source-code file, because lib-src/etags.c uses the system C library function in its implementation of the
ctags program. For example, a victim may use the "ctags *" command (suggested in the ctags documentation)
in a situation where the current working directory has contents that depend on untrusted input.
(CVE-2022-45939)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400047

Version: Revision 1.38

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 2/10/2023

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: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-45939

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/28/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-45939

Detections

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