Issued:
2015-02-19
Updated:
2016-05-09

RHBA-2015:0238 - emacs bug fix update

Synopsis

emacs bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated emacs packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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 email and news.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Previously, the data_space_start value was set inaccurately. As a consequence, the emacs text editor returned the following memory warning message:

    Emergency (alloc): Warning: past 95% of memory limit

To fix this bug, data_space_start has been set correctly, and emacs no longer returns warning messages. (BZ#852516)

  • When using the glyph face encoding, a text face was not removed from the garbage collector. As a consequence, the emacs text editor terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault when attempting to remove the face. With this update, the text face is also removed from the garbage collector, and emacs thus no longer crashes in the described scenario. (BZ#986989)

Users of emacs are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • emacs-23.1-28.el6.src.rpm
  • emacs-23.1-28.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • emacs-common-23.1-28.el6.i686.rpm
  • emacs-debuginfo-23.1-28.el6.s390x.rpm
  • emacs-23.1-28.el6.s390x.rpm
  • emacs-common-23.1-28.el6.s390x.rpm
  • emacs-el-23.1-28.el6.s390x.rpm
  • emacs-common-23.1-28.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • emacs-nox-23.1-28.el6.s390x.rpm
  • emacs-debuginfo-23.1-28.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • emacs-nox-23.1-28.el6.i686.rpm
  • emacs-nox-23.1-28.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • emacs-debuginfo-23.1-28.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • emacs-23.1-28.el6.i686.rpm
  • emacs-el-23.1-28.el6.i686.rpm
  • emacs-debuginfo-23.1-28.el6.i686.rpm
  • emacs-23.1-28.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • emacs-nox-23.1-28.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • emacs-common-23.1-28.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • emacs-el-23.1-28.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • emacs-el-23.1-28.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information