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Bug#1037175: [preapproval] bullseye-pu: package org-mode/9.4.0+dfsg-1+deb11u1

From Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.devel.release
Subject Bug#1037175: [preapproval] bullseye-pu: package org-mode/9.4.0+dfsg-1+deb11u1
Date 2023-06-07 05:10 +0200
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Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
Tags: bullseye
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: pu

Dear Release Team,

[ Reason ]
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-28617
Bug #1033341

latex in ob-latex.el in Org Mode (≤9.6.1) allows attackers to execute
arbitrary commands via a file name or directory name that contains
shell metacharacters.

At this time, org-mode 9.1.14+dfsg-3 in buster continues to be
affected.  Bullseye's copy of Emacs also has a bundled version that is
effected, and I'm willing to patch that copy too.  Elpa-org-mode is a
modular add-on that upgrades and shadows that copy, by the way, so
the CVE should be fixed here first.

[ Impact ]
Security risk that is worth the effort to fix.  Emacs has no
sandboxing...  Carnil asked me to "consider proposing a fix via the
upcoming bullseye point release" (#1033341), so here I am!

[ Tests ]
For the version of src:org-mode, in bullseye, manual testing; however,
the same fix has been tested in the bundled copy of Org-mode that
is part of Emacs in bookworm.  This fix has seen two months of testing.

[ Risks ]
It's a trivial and fairly obvious fix that was discussed upstream here:
https://list.orgmode.org/tencent_04CF842704737012CCBCD63CD654DD41CA0A@qq.com/T/#m6ef8e7d34b25fe17b4cbb655b161edce18c6655e?cve=title

[ Checklist ]
  [x] *all* changes are documented in the d/changelog
  [x] I reviewed all changes and I approve them
  [x] attach debdiff against the package in (old)stable
  [x] the issue is verified as fixed in unstable

[ Changes ]
A cherry picked patch that has been tested in bookworm for two months,
an update to the series file, and a changelog entry.  The patch
replaces calls to the external "mv" command with Emacs internal
function "rename-file", which has been in active use since the '80s.


Thank you for all the work that you are doing for bookworm!
Regards,
Nicholas

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Bug#1037175: [preapproval] bullseye-pu: package org-mode/9.4.0+dfsg-1+deb11u1 Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> - 2023-06-07 05:10 +0200
  Bug#1037175: [preapproval] bullseye-pu: package org-mode/9.4.0+dfsg-1+deb11u1 Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2023-06-07 21:20 +0200
  Bug#1037175: [preapproval] bullseye-pu: package org-mode/9.4.0+dfsg-1+deb11u1 Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2023-06-13 07:10 +0200

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