PT-2008-3655 · Xemacs+1 · Xemacs+1

Morten Welinder · Published 2008-05-12 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-2142

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Emacs version 21 XEmacs (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code by automatically loading and executing .flc (fast lock) files associated with edited files within Emacs.

Recommendations For Emacs version 21, consider disabling the automatic loading of .flc files as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. For XEmacs, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-2142

Affected Products

Emacs

Xemacs

References · 28

• 🔥 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/96903 · Exploit
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200902-06.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00736.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00782.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2142 · Security Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:153 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2142 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-2142 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:154 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2142 · Vendor Advisory
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2529 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30827 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/492657/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1540/references · Note