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Drake Wilson discovered that Emacs did not correctly handle the safe mode of &quot enable-local-variables&quot . If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file while &quot enable-local-variables&quot was set to the non-default &quot :safe&quot , a remote attacker could execute arbitrary commands with the user's privileges.

emacs22 vulnerability on Ubuntu 7.10