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Status published
Medium
CVE-2008-2142
Emacs 21 and XEmacs automatically load and execute .flc (fast...
Vulnerability Description
Emacs 21 and XEmacs automatically load and execute .flc (fast lock) files that are associated with other files that are edited within Emacs, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00782.html
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2529
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1539/references
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492657/100/0/threaded
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30827
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020019
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30199
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221197
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30303
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200902-06.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30216
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:154
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29176
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:153
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0177
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34004
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-05/msg00645.html
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/96903
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00736.html
- http://tracker.xemacs.org/XEmacs/its/issue378
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1540/references
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30581
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42362
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Affected Vendor
Affected Software
emacs, xemacs
Vulnerable Versions:
21.3.1
Timeline
Official Publish:
May 12th, 2008
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 18th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.