USN-8011-1: Emacs vulnerabilities

USN-8011-1: Emacs vulnerabilities

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/rss.xml / Wed, 02/04/2026 - 17:00
It was discovered that Emacs could trigger unsafe Lisp macro expansion, when a user invoked elisp-completion-at-point on untrusted Emacs Lisp source code. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-53920) It was discovered that Emacs did not properly sanitize input when handling certain URI schemes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary shell commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted URL. (CVE-2025-1244)

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