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High ALSA-2023:3104 2 CVEs

Important: emacs security update

Published May 16, 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: Regression of CVE-2023-28617 fixes in the AlmaLinux (CVE-2023-2491)

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 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 emacs 1:26.1-10.el8_8.2
AlmaLinux · 8 emacs-common 1:26.1-10.el8_8.2
AlmaLinux · 8 emacs-filesystem 1:26.1-10.el8_8.2
AlmaLinux · 8 emacs-lucid 1:26.1-10.el8_8.2
AlmaLinux · 8 emacs-nox 1:26.1-10.el8_8.2
AlmaLinux · 8 emacs-terminal 1:26.1-10.el8_8.2

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2491
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2192873
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2023-3104.html