Executive Summary

Summary
Title Emacs vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-541-1 First vendor Publication 2007-11-13
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2007-11-13
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:N/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 6.3 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 9.2 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 7.10

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 7.10:
emacs22 22.1-0ubuntu5.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

Drake Wilson discovered that Emacs did not correctly handle the safe mode of "enable-local-variables". If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file while "enable-local-variables" was set to the non-default ":safe", a remote attacker could execute arbitrary commands with the user's privileges.

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-541-1

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17026
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17026
Title: USN-541-1 -- emacs22 vulnerability
Description: Drake Wilson discovered that Emacs did not correctly handle the safe mode of "enable-local-variables".
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-541-1
CVE-2007-5795
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 7.10
 Product(s): emacs22
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 18

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-11-17 Name : Mac OS X Version
File : nvt/macosx_version.nasl
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for emacs MDVSA-2008:034 (emacs)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_034.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for emacs22 vulnerability USN-541-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_541_1.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for emacs FEDORA-2007-2946
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_2946_emacs_fc8.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for emacs FEDORA-2007-3056
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_3056_emacs_fc7.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200712-03 (emacs)
File : nvt/glsa_200712_03.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
42060 GNU Emacs hack-local-variables Function Crafted File Local Variable Manipulation

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2008-034.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-19 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_SecUpd2008-002.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-12-11 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200712-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-20 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2007-2946.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-20 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2007-3056.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-14 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-541-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-06 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_emacs-4620.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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