Emacs: Multiple Vulnerabilities — GLSA 202506-01

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Emacs, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected packages

app-editors/emacs on all architectures
Affected versions < 29.4-r2
< 28.2-r16
< 27.2-r20
< 26.3-r22
Unaffected versions >= 29.4-r2
>= 28.2-r16
>= 27.2-r20
>= 26.3-r22

Background

Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. org-mode is an Emacs mode for notes and project planning.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Emacs, org-mode. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Emacs, org-mode users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-editors/emacs-29.4-r2:29"
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-editors/emacs-28.2-r16:28"
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-editors/emacs-27.2-r20:27"
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-editors/emacs-26.3-r22:26"
 

References

Release date
June 12, 2025

Latest revision
June 12, 2025: 1

Severity
high

Exploitable
local

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