Issued at: 2026-10-20
Updated at: 2026-10-20
Advisory content derived from Red Hat RHSA-2026:84591, © Red Hat, Inc., used under CC BY 4.0, with modifications.
Synopsis
Important: emacs security update
Description
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: GNU Emacs: Heap over-read leading to information disclosure via crafted image (CVE-2026-77219)
* emacs: emacs: Command injection via crafted filenames in TRAMP (CVE-2026-79992)
* emacs: Emacs: arbitrary code execution in Flymake mode (CVE-2026-96442)
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.