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Alpine Linux: CVE-2012-3479: Vulnerability in emacs < 24.2 may allow remote code execution

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2012-3479: Vulnerability in emacs < 24.2 may allow remote code execution

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/25/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
09/22/2017

Description

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 attackers to execute arbitrary Emacs Lisp code via a crafted file.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-emacs

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