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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : emacs (EulerOS-SA-2017-1236)

high Nessus Plugin ID 103738

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the emacs packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - A command injection flaw within the Emacs 'enriched mode' handling has been discovered. By tricking an unsuspecting user into opening a specially crafted file using Emacs, a remote attacker could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the Emacs user. (CVE-2017-14482)

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

Solution

Update the affected emacs package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?87a5a1e4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 103738

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2017-1236.nasl

Version: 3.13

Type: local

Published: 10/10/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: 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:huawei:euleros:emacs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:emacs-common, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:emacs-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:emacs-nox, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/29/2017

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14482