Bug 2538925 (CVE-2026-96269)
| Summary: | CVE-2026-96269 emacs: GNU Emacs: Arbitrary code execution upon opening a file | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | rhel-process-autobot, watson-tool-maintainers |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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A flaw was found in GNU Emacs. A remote attacker could achieve arbitrary code execution by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted file. This vulnerability arises because an untrusted value of read-symbol-shorthands affects the intern and unintern functions, allowing for code execution without specific user settings.
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| Bug Depends On: | 2539107 | ||
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Description
OSIDB Bzimport
2026-09-22 21:36:21 UTC
Reporter's advisory / blog post: https://eshelyaron.com/posts/2026-08-06-emacs-arbitrary-code-execution-returns.html |