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Gentoo: 200902-06 Advisory: Emacs Code Execution Vulnerability Risk

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Calendar Grey February 23, 2009
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Enhance the security of GNU Emacs and XEmacs to reduce potential threats of unauthorized code execution. Refer to the latest announcements from Gentoo for pertinent upgrades.
Two vulnerabilities were found in GNU Emacs, possibly leading to user-assisted execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200902-06 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: GNU Emacs, XEmacs: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: February 23, 2009 Bugs: #221197, #236498 ID: 200902-06

Synopsis ======= Two vulnerabilities were found in GNU Emacs, possibly leading to user-assisted execution of arbitrary code. One also affects edit-utils in XEmacs.
Background ========= GNU Emacs and XEmacs are highly extensible and customizable text editors. edit-utils are miscellaneous extensions to XEmacs.
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