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Ubuntu 7.10 : emacs22 vulnerability (USN-541-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 28209

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Drake Wilson discovered that Emacs did not correctly handle the safe mode of 'enable-local-variables'. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file while 'enable-local-variables' was set to the non-default ':safe', a remote attacker could execute arbitrary commands with the user's privileges.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/541-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 28209

File Name: ubuntu_USN-541-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs22-gtk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs22-bin-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs22, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs22-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs22-el, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs22-nox

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5795

USN: 541-1