CVE-2008-2142 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-2142
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Description: Emacs 21 and XEmacs automatically load and execute .flc (fast lock) files that are associated with other files that are edited within Emacs, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/42362 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00001.html ST 1020019 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA34004 Secunia Advisory: SA30199 Secunia Advisory: SA30216 Secunia Advisory: SA30581 Secunia Advisory: SA30303 Secunia Advisory: SA30827 MLIST http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-05/msg00645.html MISC http://tracker.xemacs.org/XEmacs/its/issue378 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/96903 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:154 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:153 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200902-06.xml FEDORA CONFIRM http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0177 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/492657/100/0/threaded BID 29176

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