Bug 2280297 (CVE-2024-30204)

Summary:	CVE-2024-30204 emacs: LaTeX preview is enabled by default for e-mail attachments
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Rohit Keshri <rkeshri>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	emacs 29.3	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in Emacs. When Emacs is used as an email client, a preview of a crafted LaTeX document attached to an email can exhaust the disk space or the inodes allocated for the partition where the /tmp directory is located. This issue possibly results in a denial of service.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2280304
Bug Blocks:	2280300

Description Rohit Keshri 2024-05-14 04:01:04 UTC

In Emacs before 29.3, LaTeX preview is enabled by default for e-mail attachments.

References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/25/2
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-29

Upstream patches:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-29&id=6f9ea396f49cbe38c2173e0a72ba6af3e03b271c
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=03635a33557752a2849364974b3944ad9e5d4b96

Comment 1 Rohit Keshri 2024-05-14 04:08:31 UTC

Created emacs tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2280304]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2024-11-12 09:14:01 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:9302 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9302