Executive Summary
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | MDVSA-2010:083 | First vendor Publication | 2010-04-20 |
| Vendor | Mandriva | Last vendor Modification | 2010-04-20 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | 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:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 4.4 | Attack Range | Local |
| Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Medium |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 3.4 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| A vulnerability has been found and corrected in emacs: lib-src/movemail.c in movemail in emacs 22 and 23 allows local users to read, modify, or delete arbitrary mailbox files via a symlink attack, related to improper file-permission checks (CVE-2010-0825). Packages for 2008.0 and 2009.0 are provided due to the Extended Maintenance Program for those products. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:083 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | CWE-264 | Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13126 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13126 | ||
| Title: | USN-919-1 -- emacs22, emacs23 vulnerability | ||
| Description: | Dan Rosenberg discovered that the email helper in Emacs did not correctly check file permissions. A local attacker could perform a symlink race to read or append to another user�s mailbox if it was stored under a group-writable group-"mail" directory. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | USN-919-1 CVE-2010-0825 | Version: | 5 |
| Platform(s): | Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 9.04 | Product(s): | emacs22 emacs23 |
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 4 |
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2010-05-04 | Name : FreeBSD Ports: movemail File : nvt/freebsd_movemail.nasl |
| 2010-04-29 | Name : Mandriva Update for emacs MDVSA-2010:083 (emacs) File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2010_083.nasl |
| 2010-04-06 | Name : Ubuntu Update for emacs22, emacs23 vulnerability USN-919-1 File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_919_1.nasl |
| 2010-03-02 | Name : Mandriva Update for initscripts MDVA-2010:083 (initscripts) File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVA_2010_083.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 63430 | emacs lib-src/movemail.c Symlink Local Privilege Escalation |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2010-04-21 | Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2010-083.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2010-03-30 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : ubuntu_USN-919-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2014-02-17 11:41:26 |
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