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USN-6003-1: Emacs vulnerability

6 April 2023

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

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Releases

Packages

Details

Xi Lu discovered that Emacs did not properly handle certain
inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to 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-bin-common, emacs25-bin-common, emacs, emacs25-lucid, emacs24-lucid, emacs24-common, emacs24-bin-common, emacs-gtk, emacs-el, emacs25-nox, emacs24-nox, emacs-common, emacs25-el, emacs24, emacs-nox, emacs24-el, emacs-lucid, emacs-pgtk, emacs25, emacs25-common