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CERTA-2007-AVI-479

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Une erreur dans le traitement de certains fichiers permet à un utilisateur malveillant d'exécuter du code arbitraire à distance.

Description

Une erreur de traitement dans la fonction hack-local-variables est exploitable par un utilisateur malveillant pour modifier le fichier user-init-file d'un utilisateur et ensuite exécuter du code Lisp pour Emacs.

La vulnérabilité n'est exploitable que si le paramètre enable-local-variables est positionné à :safe.

Solution

Se référer au bulletin de sécurité de l'éditeur pour l'obtention des correctifs (cf. section Documentation).

GNU Emacs, versions 22.x.

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Description

References

Title

Publication Time

CVE-2007-5795 (GCVE-0-2007-5795)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-11-02 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:46

Summary

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.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat

References

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	http://osvdb.org/42060	vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
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	http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
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	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26327	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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	http://secunia.com/advisories/27508	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
	http://secunia.com/advisories/27627	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

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Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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