RLSA-2025:1917 Important: emacs security update

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 Fixes: emacs: Shell Injection Vulnerability in GNU Emacs via Custom "man" URI Scheme CVE-2025-1244 For...

Amazon Linux AMI : emacs (ALAS-2025-1964)

The version of emacs installed on the remote host is prior to 24.3-20.26. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2025-1964 advisory. A flaw was found in the Emacs text editor. Improper handling of custom man URI schemes allows attackers to execute arbitrary shell...

Amazon Linux 2 : emacs (ALAS-2025-2770)

The version of emacs installed on the remote host is prior to 27.2-4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2770 advisory. A flaw was found in the Emacs text editor. Improper handling of custom man URI schemes allows attackers to execute arbitrary shell...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: emacs security update

An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

RHEL 9 : emacs (RHSA-2025:1964)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:1964 advisory. GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting text editor. It provides special code editing features, a scripting language elisp, and the...

ALSA-2025:1917 Important: emacs security update

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 Fixes: emacs: Shell Injection Vulnerability in GNU Emacs via Custom "man" URI Scheme CVE-2025-1244 For...

Emacs -- Arbitrary code execution vulnerability

Problem Description A shell injection vulnerability exists in GNU Emacs due to improper handling of custom man URI schemes. Impact Initially considered low severity, as it required user interaction with local files, it was later discovered that an attacker could exploit this vulnerability by...