Executive Summary

Summary
Title EDE: Privilege escalation
Informations
Name GLSA-201812-05 First vendor Publication 2018-12-06
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2018-12-06
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: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 EDE could result in privilege escalation.

Background

A package that simplifies the task of creating, building, and debugging large programs with Emacs. It provides some of the features of an IDE, or Integrated Development Environment, in Emacs.

Description

An untrusted search path vulnerability was discovered in EDE.

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 EDE users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-xemacs/ede-1.07"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2012-0035 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0035

Availability

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-05

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201812-05.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

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Date Informations
2018-12-07 00:18:34
  • First insertion