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Fedora 27 Emacs Security Update: 2017-36893b0ea3 Command Injection

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Unveil the newest patch for Emacs on Fedora 27 tackling vulnerable enriched modes and command execution vulnerabilities.
Rebuilt against new ImageMagick ---- rhbz#1490649 - emacs-25.3 is available rhbz#1490410 - unsafe enriched mode translations (security)

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.

Rebuilt against new ImageMagick ---- rhbz#1490649 - emacs-25.3 is available

rhbz#1490410 - unsafe enriched mode translations (security)

[ 1 ] Bug #1490409 - CVE-2017-14482 emacs: command injection flaw within "enriched mode" handling

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/

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 25.3
Release: 3.fc27
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Summary: GNU Emacs text editor

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