RHSA-2023:1915 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: emacs security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · April 20, 2023

Updated · June 25, 2026

Topic

An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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: command injection vulnerability in org-mode (CVE-2023-28617)

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.

Related CVEs

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