A flaw was found in GNU Emacs. This vulnerability, a memory corruption issue, occurs when Emacs processes specially crafted SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) data. A local user could exploit this by convincing a victim to open a malicious SVG file, which may lead to a denial of service (DoS) or potentially information disclosure.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.1 · gnuNVD modified 2026-10-26 21:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:emacs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 2
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6861 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459992 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory