USN-504-1: Emacs vulnerability
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
06/21/2007
07/25/2018
05/06/2013
07/09/2020
Description
Emacs 21 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain crafted images, as demonstrated via a GIF image in vm mode, related to image size calculation.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-emacs21
- ubuntu-upgrade-emacs21-nox
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