Executive Summary

Summary
Title CEDET: Privilege escalation
Informations
Name GLSA-201401-31 First vendor Publication 2014-01-27
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-01-27
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

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:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in CEDET could result in privilege escalation.

Background

CEDET is a Collection of Emacs Development Environment Tools written with the end goal of creating an advanced development environment in Emacs.

Description

An untrusted search path vulnerability was discovered in CEDET.

Impact

A local attacker could escalate his privileges via a specially crafted Lisp expression in a Project.ede file in the directory or a parent directory of an opened file.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All CEDET users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emacs/cedet-1.0.1"

NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are available since February 01, 2012. It is likely that your system is already no longer affected by this issue.

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2012-0035 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0035

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-31.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-31.xml

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 9
Application 24

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-10-03 Name : Ubuntu Update for emacs23 USN-1586-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1586_1.nasl
2012-08-24 Name : Fedora Update for emacs FEDORA-2012-11872
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_11872_emacs_fc16.nasl
2012-04-02 Name : Fedora Update for emacs FEDORA-2012-0494
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_0494_emacs_fc16.nasl
2012-01-25 Name : Fedora Update for emacs FEDORA-2012-0462
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_0462_emacs_fc15.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
78244 CEDET EDE Component Project.ede File Loading Weakness Remote LISP Code Execution

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-12-07 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201812-05.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-03-21 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201403-05.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-28 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201401-31.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-04-20 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-076.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-09-28 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-1586-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-01-24 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-0462.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-01-24 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-0494.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:38:06
  • Multiple Updates
2014-01-27 13:18:21
  • First insertion