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TITLE:
Emacs EDE Automatic Project Loading Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA47515

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-01-10

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Emacs, which can be exploited by
malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the EDE component,
which can be exploited to execute arbitrary LISP code.

For more information:
SA47311

Successful exploitation requires that the minor mode
"global-ede-mode" is enabled.

The vulnerability is reported in version 23.2 and 23.3.

SOLUTION:
Apply patch or update to version 23.4 as soon as available.

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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Hiroshi Oota.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-01/msg00387.html

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