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Rocky Linux 10.2 [CIQ] Security Update: emacs / emacs-common / emacs-common-debuginfo / emacs-debuginfo / etc (crlba-2026_22541)

high Nessus Plugin ID 374526

Synopsis

The Rocky Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The Rocky Linux 10.2 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CIQ crlba-2026_22541 advisory.

 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.

 Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

 * emacs-29.4-9.el10 missing fix for CVE-2024-53920 (arbitrary code execution via Lisp macro expansion) (JIRA:Rocky Linux-152088)

 This advisory is provided by Ctrl IQ, Inc for Rocky Linux systems. For more information about CIQ security practices, visit https://ciq.com/security.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the CIQ security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages based on the guidance in CIQ advisory crlba-2026_22541.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RLBA-2026:22541

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2329161

https://errata.build.resf.org/RLBA-2026:22541

http://www.nessus.org/u?577b1ba2

http://www.nessus.org/u?d03333c0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 374526

File Name: ciq_rocky_linux_10_2_crlba-2026_22541.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2026

Updated: 10/31/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.19

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Unknown

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-53920

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list, Host/OS/extended-third-party

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/31/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/31/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-53920