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Ubuntu 7.10 USN-541-1 Critical: Emacs Remote Command Execution

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Calendar Grey November 13, 2007
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The Ubuntu Security Advisory USN-542-2 addresses a severe issue in the OpenSSH library that permits attackers to execute arbitrary commands through specially crafted packets.
Drake Wilson discovered that Emacs did not correctly handle the safe mode of "enable-local-variables"

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-541-1 November 13, 2007

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