Bug 2280297 (CVE-2024-30204) - CVE-2024-30204 emacs: LaTeX preview is enabled by default for e-mail attachments
Summary: CVE-2024-30204 emacs: LaTeX preview is enabled by default for e-mail attachments
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-30204
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Depends On: 2280304
Blocks: 2280300
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-05-14 04:01 UTC by Rohit Keshri
Modified: 2024-05-15 19:45 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: emacs 29.3
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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.
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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]
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