GNU Emacs: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GNU Emacs is a highly extensible and customizable text editor. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU Emacs: When ‘global-ede-mode’ is enabled, EDE in Emacs automatically loads a Project.ede file from the project directory CVE-2012-0035. When...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : emacs (MDVSA-2013:076)

Updated emacs packages fix security vulnerabilities : Untrusted search path vulnerability in EDE in CEDET before 1.0.1, as used in GNU Emacs before 23.4 and other products, allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted Lisp expression in a Project.ede file in the directory, or a parent...

FreeBSD : emacs -- remote code execution vulnerability (c1e5f35e-f93d-11e1-b07f-00235a5f2c9a)

Chong Yidong reports : Paul Ling has found a security flaw in the file-local variables code in GNU Emacs. When the Emacs user option enable-local-variables' is set to :safe' the default value is t, Emacs should automatically refuse to evaluate eval' forms in file-local variable sections. Due to t...

PT-2012-4747

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Emacs versions 23.2 through 24.1 Description The issue allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary Emacs Lisp code via a crafted file, due to the automatic execution of eval forms in local-variable sections when the...