DSA-2603-1 emacs23 -- programming error

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2603-1 emacs23 -- programming error

Date Reported:

09 Jan 2013

Affected Packages:

emacs23

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-3479.

More information:

Paul Ling discovered that Emacs insufficiently restricted the evaluation of Lisp code if enable-local-variables is set to safe.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 23.2+1-7+squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 23.4+1-4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 23.4+1-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your emacs23 packages.