Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3975-1 emacs25 -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 15 Sep 2017
- Affected Packages:
- emacs25
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-14482.
- More information:
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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 stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 25.1+1-4+deb9u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your emacs25 packages.