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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:38:48 +0700
From: Max Nikulin <manikulin@...il.com>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@...hitton.name>,
 Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, emacs@...kages.debian.org,
 emacs-devel@....org, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@...teo.net>
Subject: Re: Is CVE-2024-30203 bogus? (Emacs)

On 11/04/2024 16:13, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Wed 10 Apr 2024 at 04:17pm +02, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> 
>> Note that the CVE assignment (by MITRE as assigning CNA) for
>> CVE-2024-30203 is explicitly as follows:
>>
>>> In Emacs before 29.3, Gnus treats inline MIME contents as trusted.
>>
>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-29&id=937b9042ad7426acdcca33e3d931d8f495bdd804
> 
> This commit doesn't fix anything at all, just fyi.

This Emacs commit

     2024-02-20 12:44:30 +0300 Ihor Radchenko:
     * lisp/gnus/mm-view.el (mm-display-inline-fontify): Mark contents 
untrusted.)

is not enough to fix the issue. More changes are required to make the
fix effective, namely

ccc188fcf98 2024-02-20 12:43:51 +0300 Ihor Radchenko: * lisp/files.el 
(untrusted-content): New variable.
6f9ea396f49 2024-02-20 12:47:24 +0300 Ihor Radchenko: org-latex-preview: 
Add protection when `untrusted-content' is non-nil


When external Org mode is loaded, that version should contain

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=03635a335
2024-02-20 12:47:24 +0300 Ihor Radchenko: org-latex-preview: Add 
protection when `untrusted-content' is non-nil

besides Emacs commits ccc188fcf98 and 937b9042ad7

Emacs commit 6f9ea396f49 (fix of built-in Org mode) is currently
associated with CVE-2024-30203, however Org mode commit 03635a335
is not.

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