6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2012-3479

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

Vulnerability Summary

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 ...
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), ...