Critical Security Advisory for Emacs 29.4 on Fedora 40: Address CVE-2024-39331
Summary
Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text
editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting
language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news, and more
without leaving the editor.
This package provides an emacs binary with support for Wayland, using the
GTK toolkit.
Update Information:
Update to Emacs 29.4, fixing CVE-2024-39331.
Change Log
* Mon Jun 24 2024 Peter Oliver
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2293788 - emacs-29.4 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293788
[ 2 ] Bug #2293944 - CVE-2024-39331 emacs: org-link-expand-abbrev: Do not evaluate arbitrary unsafe Elisp code [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293944
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-a3fecfab32' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label