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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 202506-01
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 Severity: High
    Title: Emacs: Multiple Vulnerabilities
     Date: June 12, 2025
     Bugs: #945164, #950192
       ID: 202506-01

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

Background
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Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time
display editor. org-mode is an Emacs mode for notes and project
planning.

Affected packages
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Package            Vulnerable     Unaffected
-----------------  -------------  --------------
app-editors/emacs  < 26.3-r22:26  >= 26.3-r22:26
                   < 27.2-r20:27  >= 27.2-r20:27
                   < 28.2-r16:28  >= 28.2-r16:28
                   < 29.4-r2:29   >= 29.4-r2:29

Description
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Emacs, org-mode. Please
review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact
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Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Emacs, org-mode 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
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[ 1 ] CVE-2024-53920
      https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53920
[ 2 ] CVE-2025-1244
      https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1244

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202506-01

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2025 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5