Gentoo: 200902-06 Advisory: Emacs Code Execution Vulnerability Risk
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February 23, 2009
Two vulnerabilities were found in GNU Emacs, possibly leading to user-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Summary
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
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Two vulnerabilities were found in GNU Emacs, possibly leading to
user-assisted execution of arbitrary code. One also affects edit-utils
in XEmacs.
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GNU Emacs and XEmacs are highly extensible and customizable text
editors. edit-utils are miscellaneous extensions to XEmacs.
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