Issued:
2025-03-03
Updated:
2025-03-03

RHSA-2025:2130 - Important: emacs security update

Synopsis

Important: emacs security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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: Shell Injection Vulnerability in GNU Emacs via Custom "man" URI Scheme (CVE-2025-1244)

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)7s390x

Updated Packages

  • emacs-terminal-24.3-23.el7_9.2.noarch.rpm
  • emacs-debuginfo-24.3-23.el7_9.2.s390x.rpm
  • emacs-common-24.3-23.el7_9.2.s390x.rpm
  • emacs-debuginfo-24.3-23.el7_9.2.ppc64.rpm
  • emacs-common-24.3-23.el7_9.2.ppc64le.rpm
  • emacs-nox-24.3-23.el7_9.2.ppc64.rpm
  • emacs-nox-24.3-23.el7_9.2.ppc64le.rpm
  • emacs-24.3-23.el7_9.2.src.rpm
  • emacs-24.3-23.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
  • emacs-24.3-23.el7_9.2.s390x.rpm
  • emacs-common-24.3-23.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
  • emacs-filesystem-24.3-23.el7_9.2.noarch.rpm
  • emacs-debuginfo-24.3-23.el7_9.2.ppc64le.rpm
  • emacs-el-24.3-23.el7_9.2.noarch.rpm
  • emacs-24.3-23.el7_9.2.ppc64.rpm
  • emacs-24.3-23.el7_9.2.ppc64le.rpm
  • emacs-nox-24.3-23.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
  • emacs-common-24.3-23.el7_9.2.ppc64.rpm
  • emacs-debuginfo-24.3-23.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
  • emacs-nox-24.3-23.el7_9.2.s390x.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information