GNU Emacs: Multiple Vulnerabilities — GLSA 202506-01

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU Emacs, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected packages

app-editors/emacs on all architectures
Affected versions < 29.4-r2
< 28.2-r16
< 27.2-r20
< 26.3-r22
Unaffected versions >= 29.4-r2
>= 28.2-r16
>= 27.2-r20
>= 26.3-r22

Background

GNU Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU Emacs. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All GNU Emacs users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-editors/emacs-29.4-r2:29"
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-editors/emacs-28.2-r16:28"
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-editors/emacs-27.2-r20:27"
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-editors/emacs-26.3-r22:26"
 

References

Release date
June 12, 2025

Latest revision
August 20, 2026: 3

Severity
high

Exploitable
local

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