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alsa-2023:3104
Vulnerability from osv_almalinux
Published
2023-05-16 00:00
Modified
2023-05-19 22:06
Summary
Important: 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.

Security Fix(es):

  • emacs: Regression of CVE-2023-28617 fixes in the AlmaLinux (CVE-2023-2491)

For 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.

References
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  "id": "ALSA-2023:3104",
  "modified": "2023-05-19T22:06:37Z",
  "published": "2023-05-16T00:00:00Z",
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      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3104"
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      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2491"
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2192873"
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