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GNU Emacs Local Variable Processing Security Bypass Vulnerability

Title : GNU Emacs Local Variable Processing Security Bypass Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-3715
CVE ID : CVE-2007-5795
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-11-05

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in GNU Emacs, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions [...]

Affected Products

GNU Emacs version 22.1 and prior

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Drake Wilson.

ChangeLog

2007-11-05 : Initial release

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