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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-5795 |
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2007-5795 |
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Description: The hack-local-variables function in Emacs before 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 attackers to bypass intended restrictions and modify critical program variables via a file containing a Local variables declaration. |
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CVE Status: Candidate |
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References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38263 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-541-1 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA27728 Secunia Advisory: SA27508 Secunia Advisory: SA27627 Secunia Advisory: SA27984 Secunia Advisory: SA29420 OSVDB 42060 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:034 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-03.xml FEDORA CONFIRM http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197958 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/emacs/lisp/files.el?r1=1.896.2.28&r2=1.896.2.29 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=449008 BID 26327 APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html |
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