{"id":"ALSA-2025:4787","summary":"Moderate: emacs security update","details":"GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting text editor. It provides special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read e-mail and news.  \n\nSecurity Fix(es):  \n\n  * emacs: arbitrary code execution via Lisp macro expansion (CVE-2024-53920)\n\n\nFor more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.\n","modified":"2026-01-30T01:29:32.653347Z","published":"2025-05-12T00:00:00Z","related":["CVE-2024-53920"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4787"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-53920"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2329161"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-4787.html"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"emacs","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/emacs"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:27.2-11.el9_5.2"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2025:4787.json"}},{"package":{"name":"emacs-common","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/emacs-common"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:27.2-11.el9_5.2"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2025:4787.json"}},{"package":{"name":"emacs-filesystem","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/emacs-filesystem"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:27.2-11.el9_5.2"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2025:4787.json"}},{"package":{"name":"emacs-lucid","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/emacs-lucid"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:27.2-11.el9_5.2"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2025:4787.json"}},{"package":{"name":"emacs-nox","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/emacs-nox"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:27.2-11.el9_5.2"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2025:4787.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}