Ubuntu Security Update USN-7027-1: Emacs vulnerabilities

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It was discovered that Emacs incorrectly handled input sanitization. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-45939) Xi Lu discovered that Emacs incorrectly handled input sanitization. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-48337) Xi Lu discovered that Emacs incorrectly handled input sanitization. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-48338) Xi Lu discovered that Emacs incorrectly handled input sanitization. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-48339) It was discovered that Emacs incorrectly handled filename sanitization. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-28617) It was discovered that Emacs incorrectly handled certain crafted files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to crash the program, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-30203, CVE-2024-30204, CVE-2024-30205) It was discovered that Emacs incorrectly handled certain crafted files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2024-39331)

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