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CVSSv2

CVE-2007-5795

Published: 02/11/2007 Updated: 29/07/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.3 | Impact Score: 9.2 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
VMScore: 635
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
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Vulnerability Summary

The hack-local-variables function in Emacs prior to 22.2, when enable-local-variables is set to :safe, does not properly search lists of unsafe or risky variables, which might allow user-assisted malicious users to bypass intended restrictions and modify critical program variables via a file containing a Local variables declaration.

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Vendor Advisories

Ubuntu Security Notice: emacs22 vulnerability
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 ...

Exploits

Exploit DB: GNU Emacs 22.1 - Local Variable Handling Code Execution
source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/26327/info Emacs is prone to a vulnerability that lets attackers execute arbitrary code Due to a design error, the application ignores certain security settings and modifies local variables By supplying a malicious file, an attacker can exploit this issue to carry out various attacks, including executin ...

References

NVD-CWE-Otherhttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=449008http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/emacs/lisp/files.el?r1=1.896.2.28&r2=1.896.2.29http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197958https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00524.htmlhttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-03.xmlhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-541-1http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26327http://secunia.com/advisories/27508http://secunia.com/advisories/27627http://secunia.com/advisories/27728http://secunia.com/advisories/27984http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:034http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/29420http://osvdb.org/42060http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/referenceshttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3715https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38263https://usn.ubuntu.com/541-1/https://nvd.nist.govhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/30736/
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