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Fedora 43 emacs Important Memory Corruption Fix CVE-2026-6861

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Calendar Grey May 1, 2026
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Patch for memory corruption issue in Emacs on Fedora 43. Update to enhance application security against CVE-2026-6861.
Fix CVE-2026-6861: memory corruption vulnerability when processing SVG CSS.

Summary

GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text

editor. It contains special code editing features, a scripting language

(elisp), and the capability to read mail, news, and more without leaving

the editor.

Update Information:

Fix CVE-2026-6861: memory corruption vulnerability when processing SVG CSS.

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora memory corruption important emacs cve-2026-6861

Change Log

* Wed Apr 22 2026 Peter Oliver - 1:30.2-7 - Fix CVE-2026-6861: memory corruption vulnerability when processing SVG CSS.

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2460585 - CVE-2026-6861 emacs: Emacs: Memory corruption vulnerability when processing SVG CSS [fedora-43] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2460585

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-290753da75' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: emacs
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 30.2
Release: 7.fc43
URL: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
Summary: GNU Emacs text editor

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