Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1101-1 emacs23 -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 21 Sep 2017
- Affected Packages:
- emacs23
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-14482.
- More information:
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Charles A. Roelli discovered that Emacs is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution when rendering text/enriched MIME data (e.g. when using Emacs-based mail clients).
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, these problems have been fixed in version 23.4+1-4+deb7u1.We recommend that you upgrade your emacs23 packages.
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