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CVE-2007-5795

Impact:: Moderate
Public Date:: 2007-11-02

Bugzilla:: 366801: CVE-2007-5795 emacs insufficient safe mode checks

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2007-5795 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect versions of Emacs as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

Last Modified 2018-05-01T23:22:23+00:00

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