Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | Emacs vulnerabilities |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | USN-607-1 | First vendor Publication | 2008-05-06 |
| Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2008-05-06 |
| 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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 10 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 10 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 7.04 Ubuntu 7.10 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 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 6.06 LTS: Ubuntu 7.04: Ubuntu 7.10: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Emacs to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: It was discovered that Emacs did not account for precision when formatting integers. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly other unspecified actions. This issue does not affect Ubuntu 8.04. (CVE-2007-6109) Steve Grubb discovered that the vcdiff script as included in Emacs created temporary files in an insecure way when used with SCCS. Local users could exploit a race condition to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2008-1694) |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-607-1 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 50 % | CWE-119 | Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer |
| 50 % | CWE-59 | Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following') |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17480 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17480 | ||
| Title: | USN-607-1 -- emacs21, emacs22 vulnerabilities | ||
| Description: | It was discovered that Emacs did not account for precision when formatting integers. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | USN-607-1 CVE-2007-6109 CVE-2008-1694 | Version: | 7 |
| Platform(s): | Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 7.04 Ubuntu 7.10 Ubuntu 8.04 | Product(s): | emacs21 emacs22 |
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 6 | |
| Application | 1 |
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 |
| 2009-04-09 | Name : Mandriva Update for emacs MDVSA-2008:096 (emacs) File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_096.nasl |
| 2009-03-23 | Name : Ubuntu Update for emacs21, emacs22 vulnerabilities USN-607-1 File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_607_1.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 |
|---|---|
| 44566 | GNU Emacs vcdiff Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite |
| 43372 | emacs format Function Integer Format String Specifier Overflow |
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 |
| 2009-04-23 | Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2008-096.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2008-05-09 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : ubuntu_USN-607-1.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 |
| 2008-01-27 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_xemacs-4944.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 |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2014-02-17 12:05:04 |
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