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Medium RLSA-2025:9448 1 CVE

Moderate: emacs security update

Published Oct 4, 2025 · Updated Oct 4, 2025

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: arbitrary code execution via Lisp macro expansion (CVE-2024-53920)

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 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 9 emacs 1:27.2-14.el9_6.2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2329161