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author | V3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org> | 2017-10-09 18:53:29 +0100 |
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committer | V3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org> | 2017-10-09 18:53:29 +0100 |
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diff --git a/metadata/glsa/glsa-200902-06.xml b/metadata/glsa/glsa-200902-06.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..90c11e521482 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/glsa/glsa-200902-06.xml @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> +<glsa id="200902-06"> + <title>GNU Emacs, XEmacs: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> + <synopsis> + Two vulnerabilities were found in GNU Emacs, possibly leading to + user-assisted execution of arbitrary code. One also affects edit-utils in + XEmacs. + </synopsis> + <product type="ebuild">emacs edit-utils</product> + <announced>2009-02-23</announced> + <revised>2009-02-23: 01</revised> + <bug>221197</bug> + <bug>236498</bug> + <access>remote</access> + <affected> + <package name="app-editors/emacs" auto="yes" arch="*"> + <unaffected range="ge">22.2-r3</unaffected> + <unaffected range="rge">21.4-r17</unaffected> + <unaffected range="lt">19</unaffected> + <vulnerable range="lt">22.2-r3</vulnerable> + </package> + <package name="app-xemacs/edit-utils" auto="yes" arch="*"> + <unaffected range="ge">2.39</unaffected> + <vulnerable range="lt">2.39</vulnerable> + </package> + </affected> + <background> + <p> + GNU Emacs and XEmacs are highly extensible and customizable text + editors. edit-utils are miscellaneous extensions to XEmacs. + </p> + </background> + <description> + <p> + Morten Welinder reports about GNU Emacs and edit-utils in XEmacs: By + shipping a .flc accompanying a source file (.c for example) and setting + font-lock-support-mode to fast-lock-mode in the source file through + local variables, any Lisp code in the .flc file is executed without + warning (CVE-2008-2142). + </p> + <p> + Romain Francoise reported a security risk in a feature of GNU Emacs + related to interacting with Python. The vulnerability arises because + Python, by default, prepends the current directory to the module search + path, allowing for arbitrary code execution when launched from a + specially crafted directory (CVE-2008-3949). + </p> + </description> + <impact type="normal"> + <p> + Remote attackers could entice a user to open a specially crafted file + in GNU Emacs, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary Emacs Lisp + code or arbitrary Python code with the privileges of the user running + GNU Emacs or XEmacs. + </p> + </impact> + <workaround> + <p> + There is no known workaround at this time. + </p> + </workaround> + <resolution> + <p> + All GNU Emacs users should upgrade to the latest version: + </p> + <code> + # emerge --sync + # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-editors/emacs-22.2-r3"</code> + <p> + All edit-utils users should upgrade to the latest version: + </p> + <code> + # emerge --sync + # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-xemacs/edit-utils-2.39"</code> + </resolution> + <references> + <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2142">CVE-2008-2142</uri> + <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3949">CVE-2008-3949</uri> + </references> + <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-07-06T22:12:00Z"> + rbu + </metadata> + <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-07-12T19:44:28Z"> + vorlon + </metadata> + <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-02-09T22:47:35Z"> + p-y + </metadata> +</glsa> |