USN-8011-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2024-53920)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-02-04 09:51 – Updated: 2026-04-27 14:11 – Source website
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Summary
emacs vulnerabilities
Details

It was discovered that Emacs could trigger unsafe Lisp macro expansion, when a user invoked elisp-completion-at-point on untrusted Emacs Lisp source code. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-53920)

It was discovered that Emacs did not properly sanitize input when handling certain URI schemes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary shell commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted URL. (CVE-2025-1244)

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  "modified": "2026-04-27T14:11:47Z",
  "published": "2026-02-04T09:51:13Z",
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}



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