CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-2142
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-05-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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.
Affected configurations
• gnu emacs 21.3.1
• gnu xemacs
References
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-05/msg00645.html lists.gnu.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00001.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30199 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30216 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30303 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30581 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30827 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34004 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200902-06.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/96903 Exploit
- http://tracker.xemacs.org/XEmacs/its/issue378 tracker.xemacs.org
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0177 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:153 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:154 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492657/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29176 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020019 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1539/references www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1540/references www.vupen.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221197 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42362 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2529 issues.rpath.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00736.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00782.html www.redhat.com
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-05/msg00645.html lists.gnu.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00001.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30199 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30216 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30303 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30581 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30827 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34004 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200902-06.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/96903 Exploit
- http://tracker.xemacs.org/XEmacs/its/issue378 tracker.xemacs.org
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0177 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:153 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:154 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492657/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29176 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020019 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1539/references www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1540/references www.vupen.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221197 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42362 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2529 issues.rpath.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00736.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00782.html www.redhat.com