PT-2007-6761 · Gnu · Emacs

Published 2007-11-02 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2007-5795

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Emacs versions prior to 22.2

Description The issue concerns the hack-local-variables function, which does not properly search lists of unsafe or risky variables when enable-local-variables is set to :safe. This could allow user-assisted attackers to bypass intended restrictions and modify critical program variables via a file containing a Local variables declaration.

Recommendations For Emacs versions prior to 22.2, update to version 22.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-5795

DTSA-79-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10735-1

Affected Products

Emacs

References · 24

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/30736 · Exploit
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:034 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-541-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-03.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00524.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10735-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5795 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27728 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27508 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references · Note
• http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/emacs/lisp/files.el?r1=1.896.2.28&r2=1.896.2.29 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27627 · Note
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197958 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3715 · Note