USN-541-1: Emacs vulnerability

Publication date

13 November 2007

Overview

Emacs vulnerability

Releases


Packages

Details

Drake Wilson discovered that Emacs did not correctly handle the safe
mode of “enable-local-variables”. If a user were tricked into opening
a specially crafted file while “enable-local-variables” was set to the
non-default ”:safe”, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary commands
with the user’s privileges.

Drake Wilson discovered that Emacs did not correctly handle the safe
mode of “enable-local-variables”. If a user were tricked into opening
a specially crafted file while “enable-local-variables” was set to the
non-default ”:safe”, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary commands
with the user’s privileges.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
7.10 gutsy emacs22 –  22.1-0ubuntu5.1

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