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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-71391 (CVE-2026-71391)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-08-10 11:17 – Updated: 2026-08-10 11:17 – Source website

Details

GNU Emacs for Android contains an off-by-one error in the gvar table parser in src/sfnt.c. The shared-coordinate index boundary check in sfnt_vary_simple_glyph() and sfnt_vary_compound_glyph() uses a strict greater-than comparison instead of greater-than-or-equal, allowing a crafted TrueType variable font to bypass the check and trigger a heap-based out-of-bounds read via memcpy. An attacker can deliver a malicious font file via email, EWW (Emacs Web Wowser), or documents with custom faces, causing Emacs to load it. This exposes heap memory contents which can be later used to defeat ASLR. This issue was fixed in commit 95ab9ef627b212d74d321c5bbb5b56a1be7b9fbe

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-71391	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-71391	REPORT
	https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/08/CVE-2026-71391	REPORT
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commi…	REPORT
	https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/emacs/…	REPORT

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CVE-2026-71391 (GCVE-0-2026-71391)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 10:22 – Updated: 2026-08-10 17:48 X_Open Source

Title

Off-by-One Error in GNU Emacs for Android

Summary

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-10 17:48 UTC

CWE

CWE-193 - Off-by-one Error

Assigner

CERT-PL ENISA root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/08/CVE-2026-71391	third-party-advisory
https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/emacs/…	product
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commi…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
GNU	Emacs	Affected: 0 , ≤ 30.2 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:gnu:emacs:::android:::::*

Credits

Michał Majchrowicz (AFINE Team) Marcin Wyczechowski (AFINE Team)

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