Published: 25/08/2012 Updated: 13/12/2013

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

VMScore: 605

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

lisp/files.el in Emacs 23.2, 23.3, 23.4, and 24.1 automatically executes eval forms in local-variable sections when the enable-local-variables option is set to :safe, which allows user-assisted remote malicious users to execute arbitrary Emacs Lisp code via a crafted file.

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Debian Bug report logs - #684694 emacs24: CVE-2012-3479: GNU Emacs file-local variables Package: emacs24; Maintainer for emacs24 is Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalueorg>; Source for emacs24 is src:emacs (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Henri Salo <henri@nervfi> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 06:57:01 UTC Severity: importan ...

Emacs could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file ...

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 232+1-7+squeeze1 For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 234+1-4 For the unstable distribution (sid), ...

NVD-CWE-noinfo http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/13/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/13/1 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027375 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2012&m=slackware-security.420006 http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=12155 http://secunia.com/advisories/50157 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54969 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1586-1 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00057.html http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2603 http://secunia.com/advisories/50801 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:076 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684694 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1586-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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