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Fedora 39: FEDORA-2024-3fedeba41f Critical Emacs Update - CVE-2024-39331

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Calendar Grey July 2, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Emacs version 29.4 brings vital security improvements, significantly boosting stability and efficiency for its user base.
Update to version 29.4, fixing CVE-2024-39331

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.

Update Information:

Update to version 29.4, fixing CVE-2024-39331. Update to Emacs 29.4, fixing CVE-2024-39331.

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security advisory Fedora critical update CVE fix text editor Emacs update

Change Log

* Tue Jun 25 2024 Peter Oliver - 1:29.4-2 - Update to version 29.4.

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2293788 - emacs-29.4 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293788

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-3fedeba41f' 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 39
Version: 29.4
Release: 2.fc39
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Summary: GNU Emacs text editor

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security advisory Fedora critical update CVE fix text editor Emacs update

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