High USN-5781-1 1 CVE

emacs24 vulnerability

Published Dec 14, 2022 · Updated Jun 25, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that Emacs did not properly manage certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands.

Fixed packages 1

Release	Package	Fixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS	emacs24	24.5+1-6ubuntu1.1+esm1

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2022-45939

GNU Emacs through 28.2 allows attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in the name of a source-code file,…

xemacs21-packages xemacs21 emacs24 emacs25 Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine

Nov 28, 2022

References

report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-45939