CVE-2017-14482

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In particular, an Emacs user can be instantly compromised by reading a crafted email message (or Usenet news article)."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "GNU Emacs en versiones anteriores a la 25.3 permite que atacantes remotos ejecuten c\u00f3digo arbitrario por email con datos \"Content-Type: text/enriched\" manipulados que contienen un elemento x-display XML que especifica la ejecuci\u00f3n de comandos shell. Esto est\u00e1 relacionado con una extensi\u00f3n text/enriched no segura en lisp/textmodes/enriched.el, as\u00ed como con un soporte Gnus inseguro para objetos MIME \"enriched\" y \"richtext\" en lisp/gnus/mm-view.el. 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