CVE-2014-3422 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2014-3422

lisp/emacs-lisp/find-gc.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users...

Vulnerability Description

lisp/emacs-lisp/find-gc.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file under /tmp/esrc/.

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.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

emacs, mageia
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 20.0, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.6, 20.7, 21, 21.1, 21.2, 21.2.1, 21.3, 21.3.1, 21.4, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 23.4, 24.1, 24.2, 3, 4

Timeline

Official Publish: May 8th, 2014
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.