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.

GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This package contains a version of Emacs with a GTK+ user interface.

emacs23 on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2603.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25