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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.04 / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : emacs21, emacs22 vulnerabilities (USN-607-1)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 32187
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
It was discovered that Emacs did not account for precision when formatting integers. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly other unspecified actions. This issue does not affect Ubuntu 8.04.(CVE-2007-6109)
Steve Grubb discovered that the vcdiff script as included in Emacs created temporary files in an insecure way when used with SCCS. Local users could exploit a race condition to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2008-1694).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 32187
File Name: ubuntu_USN-607-1.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 5/9/2008
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: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs-nox, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs22-el, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs22-nox, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs22-gtk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21-bin-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs22-bin-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs-el, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21-el, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs22-common, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs22, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21-nox, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2007-6109, CVE-2008-1694