USN-5955-1: Emacs vulnerability

15 March 2023

Emacs could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

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Releases

Packages

Details

It was discovered that Emacs did not properly manage certain files when
using htmlfontify functionality. A local attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary commands.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04

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

References

Related notices

  • USN-7027-1: emacs-el, emacs24-lucid, emacs-bin-common, emacs-gtk, emacs-common, emacs25-el, emacs24, emacs24-common, emacs25-nox, emacs25-bin-common, emacs24-nox, emacs, emacs-pgtk, emacs24-el, emacs25-common, emacs25, emacs25-lucid, emacs24-bin-common, emacs-lucid, emacs-nox