Debian DLA-1101-1 : emacs23 security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 103388

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Charles A. Roelli discovered that Emacs is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution when rendering text/enriched MIME data (e.g. when using Emacs-based mail clients).

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 23.4+1-4+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your emacs23 packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 103388

File Name: debian_DLA-1101.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/22/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:emacs23-bin-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:emacs23-lucid, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:emacs23-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:emacs23, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:emacs23-el, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:emacs23-nox

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/21/2017

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14482

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