A vulnerability has been identified in GNU Emacs, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by an error in the "hack-local-variables" function that does not properly validate local variables read from a file, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary Emacs Lisp code by tricking a user into opening a malicious file using an application with the "enable-local-variables" option set to ":safe".
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Drake Wilson.
ChangeLog
2007-11-05 : Initial release
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