USN-5781-1: Emacs vulnerability

14 December 2022

Emacs could be made to run programs as your login if it received specially crafted input.

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It was discovered that Emacs did not properly manage certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands.

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The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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