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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-79992

A flaw was found in Emacs TRAMP. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability by processing maliciously crafted filenames. This occurs because TR...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

A flaw was found in Emacs TRAMP. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability by processing maliciously crafted filenames. This occurs because TRAMP concatenates login arguments without proper sanitization, which are then passed to a local shell. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 emacs

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Debian:13 emacs

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Debian:14 emacs

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org