RLSA-2026:90887

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Source
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:90887
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:90887.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2026:90887
Upstream
  • CVE-2026-96269
Published
2026-10-29T12:08:23Z
Modified
2026-10-29T12:30:02Z
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: GNU Emacs: Arbitrary code execution upon opening a file (CVE-2026-96269)

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 
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    "license":  "CC-BY-4.0",
    "license_url":  "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "source_advisory":  "RHSA-2026:90887"
}
References
Credits
    • Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
    • Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:10 / emacs

Package

Name
emacs
Purl
pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/emacs?distro=rocky-linux-10&epoch=1

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:29.4-14.el10_2.4
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "yum_repository":  "BaseOS"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:90887.json"