On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, Pat Riehecky wrote:

> Synopsis:          Important: emacs security update
> Advisory ID:       SLSA-2017:2771-1
> Issue Date:        2017-09-19
> CVE Numbers:       CVE-2017-14482
> --
>
> 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)

I see from https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14482
that RedHat have marked this "wont fix" on RHEL6 and "investigating"
on RHEL5, which seems odd - I'd have expected the other way around
(unless a RHEL5 customer is paying for it).

Yes, there is a workaround, but I imagine that emacs is commonly used
on RHEL6 and SL6 servers and it only takes one careless mistake...

How do other SL6 users feel about this "wont fix" ?

I'm trying to write my own patch, but seem to be struggling to patch
a file near a ctrl-L character ...

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Andrew C. Aitchison					Cambridge, UK
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