USN-541-1: Emacs vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 7.10

Packages

• emacs22 -

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.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 7.10

• emacs22 - 22.1-0ubuntu5.1

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

References

• CVE-2007-5795