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Re: CVE request: Emacs 21 fast-lock-mode arbitrary lips code execution

From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 14:10:55 -0400 (EDT)


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Name: CVE-2008-2142
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2142
Reference: MISC:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/96903
Reference: MISC:http://tracker.xemacs.org/XEmacs/its/issue378
Reference: CONFIRM:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221197

Emacs 21 and XEmacs automatically load and execute .flc (fast lock) files
that are associated with other files are edited within Emacs, which allows
user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Current thread:

Re: CVE request: Emacs 21 fast-lock-mode arbitrary lips code execution, (continued)
- - Re: CVE request: Emacs 21 fast-lock-mode arbitrary lips code execution Robert Buchholz (May 12)
    - Re: CVE request: Emacs 21 fast-lock-mode arbitrary lips code execution Nico Golde (May 12)
    - Re: CVE request: Emacs 21 fast-lock-mode arbitrary lips code execution Robert Buchholz (May 13)
    - Re: CVE request: Emacs 21 fast-lock-mode arbitrary lips code execution Nico Golde (May 14)
    - Re: CVE request: Emacs 21 fast-lock-mode arbitrary lips code execution Sven Joachim (May 14)
    - Re: Re: CVE request: Emacs 21 fast-lock-mode arbitrary lips code execution Nico Golde (May 14)
    - Re: CVE request: Emacs 21 fast-lock-mode arbitrary lips code execution Sven Joachim (May 14)
    - Re: Re: CVE request: Emacs 21 fast-lock-mode arbitrary lips code execution Tavis Ormandy (May 14)
    - vim $TMPDIR directory stat (was: [oss-security] Re: CVE request: Emacs 21 fast-lock-mode arbitrary lips code execution) Nico Golde (May 14)
    - Re: Re: CVE request: Emacs 21 fast-lock-mode arbitrary lips code execution Gustavo De Nardin (spuk) (May 14)
- Re: CVE request: Emacs 21 fast-lock-mode arbitrary lips code execution Steven M. Christey (May 12)