Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2603-1 emacs23 -- programming error
- Date Reported:
- 09 Jan 2013
- Affected Packages:
- emacs23
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-3479.
- More information:
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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 23.2+1-7+squeeze1.
For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 23.4+1-4.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 23.4+1-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your emacs23 packages.