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High ALSA-2023:2074 1 CVE

Important: emacs security update

Published May 2, 2023 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

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: command injection vulnerability in org-mode (CVE-2023-28617)

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.

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 emacs 1:27.2-6.el9_1.1
AlmaLinux · 9 emacs-common 1:27.2-6.el9_1.1
AlmaLinux · 9 emacs-filesystem 1:27.2-6.el9_1.1
AlmaLinux · 9 emacs-lucid 1:27.2-6.el9_1.1
AlmaLinux · 9 emacs-nox 1:27.2-6.el9_1.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28617
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2180544
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-2074.html