RHSA-2024:9302 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: emacs security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 12, 2024
Updated · October 31, 2026
Topic
An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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):
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emacs: Gnus treats inline MIME contents as trusted (CVE-2024-30203)
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emacs: LaTeX preview is enabled by default for e-mail attachments (CVE-2024-30204)
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emacs: Org mode considers contents of remote files to be trusted (CVE-2024-30205)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.