Executive Summary

Summary
Title New emacs21 packages fix denial of service
Informations
Name DSA-1316 First vendor Publication 2007-06-21
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2007-06-21
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

It has been discovered that emacs, the GNU Emacs editor, will crash when processing certain types of images.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version XXX

We recommend that you upgrade your emacs21 (21.4a+1-3etch1) package.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1316

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16922
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16922
Title: USN-504-1 -- emacs21 vulnerability
Description: Hendrik Tews discovered that emacs21 did not correctly handle certain GIF images.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-504-1
CVE-2007-2833
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 6.06
Ubuntu 6.10
Ubuntu 7.04
Product(s): emacs21
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18511
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18511
Title: DSA-1316-1 emacs21
Description: It has been discovered that emacs, the GNU Emacs editor, will crash when processing certain types of images.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1316-1
CVE-2007-2833
Version: 7
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Product(s): emacs21
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 12

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-10-10 Name : SLES9: Security update for GNU Emacs
File : nvt/sles9p5011365.nasl
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for emacs MDKSA-2007:133 (emacs)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDKSA_2007_133.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for emacs21 vulnerability USN-504-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_504_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
37512 GNU Emacs vm Mode GIF Handling DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2007-12-13 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_emacs-4190.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-10 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-504-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-10-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_emacs-4197.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-06-27 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1316.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-06-27 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2007-133.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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