Bug 366801 (CVE-2007-5795) - CVE-2007-5795 emacs insufficient safe mode checks
Summary: CVE-2007-5795 emacs insufficient safe mode checks
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2007-5795
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=C...
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Depends On: 367581 367591 367601
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-11-05 13:53 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2021-11-12 19:45 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 22.1-8.fc8
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2007-11-17 05:33:12 UTC
Embargoed:

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Description Tomas Hoger 2007-11-05 13:53:31 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-5795 to the following vulnerability:

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.

References:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=449008
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2007-11-08 05:59:15 UTC 
emacs-22.1-8.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update emacs'
Comment 9 Tomas Hoger 2007-11-08 13:39:22 UTC 
This issue only affected emacs as of version 22.

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

Updates for Fedora 7 and Fedora 8 were build and will be pushed to stable
repository shortly.
Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2007-11-09 23:46:30 UTC 
emacs-22.1-5.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update emacs'
Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2007-11-17 05:33:08 UTC 
emacs-22.1-8.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2007-11-17 05:34:31 UTC 
emacs-22.1-5.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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