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Fedora 25: Emacs 25.3 Moderate Security Update for Unsafe Translations

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Calendar Grey September 19, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical patches, enhancements, and key information regarding the Emacs upgrade for Fedora 25, targeting vulnerabilities and malfunctions.
Many security fixes, bug fixes, and other changes from the previous version 6.9.3.0

Summary

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

editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting

language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news, and more

without leaving the editor.

This package provides an emacs binary with support for X windows.

Many security fixes, bug fixes, and other changes from the previous version

6.9.3.0. See the [6.9 branch ChangeLog](https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/blob/3fd358e2ac34977fda38a2cf4d88a1cb4dd2d7c7/ChangeLog). Dependent packages

are mostly straight rebuilds, a couple also include bugfix version updates.

---- rhbz#1490649 - emacs-25.3 is available rhbz#1490410 - unsafe enriched

mode translations (security)

[ 1 ] Bug #1490409 - CVE-2017-14482 emacs: Unsafe enriched mode translations

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1490409

su -c 'dnf upgrade emacs' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 25.3
Release: 3.fc25
Summary: GNU Emacs text editor

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