RLSA-2025:4787

Source
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:4787
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2025:4787.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2025:4787
Upstream
Published
2025-07-29T13:40:19.644888Z
Modified
2025-07-29T14:03:13.128321Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Moderate: emacs security update
Details

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.

References
Credits
    • Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
    • Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:9 / emacs

Package

Name
emacs
Purl
pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/emacs?distro=rocky-linux-9&epoch=1

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:27.2-11.el9_5.2