Important: emacs security update
GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting text editor. It provides special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read e-mail and news. Security Fix(es): * emacs: GNU Emacs: Heap over-read leading to information disclosure via crafted image (CVE-2026-77219) * emacs: emacs: Command injection via crafted filenames in TRAMP (CVE-2026-79992) * emacs: Emacs: arbitrary code execution in Flymake mode (CVE-2026-96442) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
- Products
- emacs
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1:29.4-14.el10_2.3
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-77219, CVE-2026-79992, CVE-2026-96442
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:08 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting text editor. It provides special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read e-mail and news. Security Fix(es): * emacs: GNU Emacs: Heap over-read leading to information disclosure via crafted image (CVE-2026-77219) * emacs: emacs: Command injection via crafted filenames in TRAMP (CVE-2026-79992) * emacs: Emacs: arbitrary code execution in Flymake mode (CVE-2026-96442) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
osv:RLSA-2026:84591
emacs
Fixed versions: 1:29.4-14.el10_2.3
Complete source record
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"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2521196",
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