| Name | CVE-2024-30202 |
| Description | In Emacs before 29.3, arbitrary Lisp code is evaluated as part of turning on Org mode. This affects Org Mode before 9.6.23. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1067630, 1067663 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| emacs (PTS) | buster | 1:26.1+1-3.2+deb10u2 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1:26.1+1-3.2+deb10u4 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:27.1+1-3.1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:27.1+1-3.1+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:28.2+1-15 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 1:29.2+1-2 | vulnerable |
| sid | 1:29.3+1-2 | fixed |
| org-mode (PTS) | buster | 9.1.14+dfsg-3 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 9.1.14+dfsg-3+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 9.4.0+dfsg-1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 9.5.2+dfsh-5 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 9.6.23+dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| emacs | source | buster | (not affected) | | | |
| emacs | source | bullseye | (not affected) | | | |
| emacs | source | (unstable) | 1:29.3+1-1 | | | 1067630 |
| org-mode | source | buster | (not affected) | | | |
| org-mode | source | bullseye | (not affected) | | | |
| org-mode | source | (unstable) | 9.6.23+dfsg-1 | | | 1067663 |
Notes
[bookworm] - emacs <no-dsa> (Minor issue, will be fixed via point release)
[bullseye] - emacs <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[buster] - emacs <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[bookworm] - org-mode <ignored> (Produces only a dependency binary package)
[bullseye] - org-mode <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[buster] - org-mode <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present; added in tag release_9.5)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/24/1
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2024-03/msg00005.html
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-29&id=befa9fcaae29a6c9a283ba371c3c5234c7f644eb
https://list.orgmode.org/87o7b3eczr.fsf@bzg.fr/T/#t
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=003ddacf1c8d869b1858181c29ea21b731a8d8d9
Introduced by: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=8abdbbee395f284f2262a89187d662eaf40080b1
org-mode/9.5.2+dfsh-5 dropped all lisp files from the produced binary packages
making an empty dependency package only.