[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: emacs-24.1-4.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-11876
2012-08-14 21:40:09
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Name        : emacs
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 24.1
Release     : 4.fc17
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
Summary     : GNU Emacs text editor
Description :
Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text
editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting
language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news, and more
without leaving the editor.

This package provides an emacs binary with support for X windows.

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Update Information:

CVE-2012-3479 emacs: Evaluation of 'eval' forms in file-local variable sections, when 'enable-local-variables' set to ':safe'
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Aug 13 2012 Karel Klíč <kklic at redhat.com> - 1:24.1-4
- Fix CVE-2012-3479: Evaluation of 'eval' forms in file-local variable
  sections, when 'enable-local-variables' set to ':safe'
* Fri Jul 13 2012 Karel Klíč <kklic at redhat.com> - 1:24.1-3
- Revert the switch from GTK 3 to GTK 2 for this release
* Wed Jul 11 2012 Karel Klíč <kklic at redhat.com> - 1:24.1-2
- Fix org-mode to work without emacs-el installed.
  rhbz#830162
* Mon Jun 18 2012 Karel Klíč <kklic at redhat.com> - 1:24.1-1
- New upstream release
- Switch from GTK 2 to GTK 3
* Fri Jun  8 2012 Karel Klíč <kklic at redhat.com> - 1:24.1-0.rc1
- New upstream prerelease
- Cleanup of the %changelog section
* Mon May 21 2012 Karel Klíč <kklic at redhat.com> - 1:24.0.97-1
- Newest prerelease
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #847698 - CVE-2012-3479 emacs: Evaluation of 'eval' forms in file-local variable sections, when 'enable-local-variables' set to ':safe'
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847698
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