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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200502-20">
+ <title>Emacs, XEmacs: Format string vulnerabilities in movemail</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ The movemail utility shipped with Emacs and XEmacs contains several format
+ string vulnerabilities, potentially leading to the execution of arbitrary
+ code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">Emacs</product>
+ <announced>2005-02-15</announced>
+ <revised>2006-07-23: 02</revised>
+ <bug>79686</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-editors/emacs" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">21.4</unaffected>
+ <unaffected range="lt">19</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">21.4</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ <package name="app-editors/xemacs" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">21.4.15-r3</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">21.4.15-r3</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ GNU Emacs and XEmacs are highly extensible and customizable text
+ editors. movemail is an Emacs utility that can fetch mail on remote
+ mail servers.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Max Vozeler discovered that the movemail utility contains several
+ format string errors.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ An attacker could set up a malicious POP server and entice a user to
+ connect to it using movemail, resulting in the execution of arbitrary
+ code with the rights of the victim user.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Emacs users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-editors/emacs-21.4"</code>
+ <p>
+ All XEmacs users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-editors/xemacs-21.4.15-r3"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0100">CAN-2005-0100</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-02-11T15:36:27Z">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-02-15T16:06:08Z">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-02-15T16:06:17Z">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>