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Hiroshi Oota discovered that Emacs incorrectly handled search paths. If a user were tricked into opening a file with Emacs, a local attacker could execute arbitrary Lisp code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-0035) Paul Ling discovered that Emacs incorrectly handled certain eval forms in local-variable sections. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file with Emacs, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary Lisp code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-3479)

emacs23 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS , Ubuntu 11.10

• https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-September/001844.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25