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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3970-1 emacs24 -- security update

Date Reported:

12 Sep 2017

Affected Packages:

emacs24

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 875448.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-14482.

More information:

Charles A. Roelli discovered that Emacs is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution when rendering text/enriched MIME data (e.g. when using Emacs-based mail clients).

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 24.4+1-5+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 24.5+1-11+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your emacs24 packages.