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Oracle Linux 8: ELSA-2025-11030 emacs Moderate DoS CVE-2024-53920

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Calendar Grey July 16, 2025
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Recent updates to Emacs packages for Oracle Linux 8 resolve a significant security vulnerability identified as CVE-2024-53920, which concerns the potential for unauthorized code execution.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

[1:26.1-15] - Restore definition of variable "enable-dir-local-variables" (RHEL-92830) [1:26.1-14] - Fix arbitrary code execution via Lisp macro expansion (RHEL-69394)

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security advisory moderate security issue DoS emacs Oracle Linux

SRPMs

http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/emacs-26.1-15.el8_10.src.rpm

x86_64

emacs-26.1-15.el8_10.x86_64.rpm emacs-common-26.1-15.el8_10.x86_64.rpm emacs-lucid-26.1-15.el8_10.x86_64.rpm emacs-nox-26.1-15.el8_10.x86_64.rpm emacs-terminal-26.1-15.el8_10.noarch.rpm emacs-filesystem-26.1-15.el8_10.noarch.rpm

aarch64

emacs-26.1-15.el8_10.aarch64.rpm emacs-common-26.1-15.el8_10.aarch64.rpm emacs-lucid-26.1-15.el8_10.aarch64.rpm emacs-nox-26.1-15.el8_10.aarch64.rpm emacs-terminal-26.1-15.el8_10.noarch.rpm emacs-filesystem-26.1-15.el8_10.noarch.rpm

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Related CVEs: CVE-2024-53920

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security advisory moderate security issue DoS emacs Oracle Linux

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