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openSUSE Leap 16.0 Emacs Moderate Memory Corruption CVE-2026-6861 20759-1

opensuse
Calendar Grey May 19, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Critical memory corruption in Emacs resolved with moderate update ensuring system stability on openSUSE Leap 16.0.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has 2 bug fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for emacs fixes the following issue:

- CVE-2026-6861: memory corruption when processing specially crafted SVG CSS data (bsc#1262611).

- Build with tree-sitter-0.26.8 security update (bsc#1262007).

Patch instructions:

To install this openSUSE security update use the suse recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 16.0

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-16.0-755=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory memory corruption important emacs bug fixes OpenSUSE

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

emacs-30.2-160000.2.1

emacs-el-30.2-160000.2.1

emacs-eln-30.2-160000.2.1

emacs-games-30.2-160000.2.1

emacs-info-30.2-160000.2.1

emacs-nox-30.2-160000.2.1

emacs-x11-30.2-160000.2.1

etags-30.2-160000.2.1

References

* bsc#1262007

* bsc#1262611

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6861.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:20759-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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