RLSA-2026:85245

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Source
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:85245
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:85245.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2026:85245
Upstream
Published
2026-10-20T12:05:07Z
Modified
2026-10-20T12:15:38Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
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: Emacs: arbitrary code execution in Flymake mode (CVE-2026-96442)

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.

Database specific 
{
    "license":  "CC-BY-4.0",
    "license_url":  "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "source_advisory":  "RHSA-2026:85245"
}
References
Credits
    • Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
    • Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:9 / emacs

Package

Name
emacs
Purl
pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/emacs?distro=rocky-linux-9&epoch=1

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:27.2-18.el9_8.3
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "yum_repository":  "AppStream"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:85245.json"