From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:25:00 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Document reporting security issues in user manual
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Document reporting security issues in user manual

* doc/emacs/trouble.texi (Bugs): Document how to report important
security issues.

(cherry picked from commit 98177d4b3d15e5b7a9c14d1588c13a928ed62da1)
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diff --git a/doc/emacs/trouble.texi b/doc/emacs/trouble.texi
index c385d6b0b3d..2e2ee2dc961 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/trouble.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/trouble.texi
@@ -550,6 +550,13 @@ investigating and fixing the bug, where you will receive copies of
 email messages discussing the bug, in which we might ask you to
 provide more information, test possible fixes, etc.
 
+@cindex security, reporting issues
+@item
+If you think you may have found a security issue that needs to be
+communicated privately, please contact the GNU Emacs maintainers
+directly.  See the file @file{admin/MAINTAINERS} in the Emacs
+distribution for their contact details.
+
 @item
 Finally, if you want to propose specific changes to Emacs, whether to
 fix a bug, add a new feature, or improve our documentation, please see