RockyLinux 8 : emacs (RLSA-2024:6987)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 235511

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2024:6987 advisory.

* emacs: Gnus treats inline MIME contents as trusted (CVE-2024-30203)

* emacs: Org mode considers contents of remote files to be trusted (CVE-2024-30205)

* emacs: org-link-expand-abbrev: Do not evaluate arbitrary unsafe Elisp code (CVE-2024-39331)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 235511

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2024-6987.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/7/2025

Updated: 5/7/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-39331

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:emacs-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:emacs-common, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:emacs-common-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:emacs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:emacs-nox-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:emacs-lucid-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:emacs-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:emacs-lucid, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:emacs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:emacs-nox, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:emacs-terminal

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-30203, CVE-2024-30205, CVE-2024-39331

Detections

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