USN-6003-1: Emacs vulnerability

6 April 2023

Emacs could be made to run programs as your login if it received specially crafted input.

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Releases

Xi Lu discovered that Emacs did not properly handle certain
inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute
arbitrary commands.

Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

USN-7027-1: emacs-nox, emacs24-lucid, emacs24-nox, emacs25-bin-common, emacs25-nox, emacs25-common, emacs24-bin-common, emacs25-el, emacs-bin-common, emacs25, emacs24, emacs24-el, emacs-lucid, emacs-pgtk, emacs-el, emacs-gtk, emacs-common, emacs25-lucid, emacs, emacs24-common

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