An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting text editor. It
 provides special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read e-mail and news.

Security Fix(es):

* emacs: Shell Injection Vulnerability in GNU Emacs via Custom "man"
 URI Scheme (CVE-2025-1244)

* emacs: Shell Injection Vulnerability in GNU Emacs via Custom "man"
 URI Scheme [rhel-9.5.z] (CVE-2025-1244)

Bug Fix(es):

* Eliminate use of obsolete %patchN syntax [rhel-9.5.z] (JIRA:RHEL-80450)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
 score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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CVE-2025-1244: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS
 Command ('OS Command Injection') (CWE-78)