gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201812-05.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201812-05">
  <title>EDE: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in EDE could result in privilege escalation.</synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">ede, emacs</product>
  <announced>2018-12-06</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-12-06</revised>
  <bug>398241</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-xemacs/ede" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.07</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.07</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>A package that simplifies the task of creating, building, and debugging
      large programs with Emacs. It provides some of the features of an IDE, or
      Integrated Development Environment, in Emacs.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>An untrusted search path vulnerability was discovered in EDE.</p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker could escalate his privileges via a specially crafted
      Lisp expression in a Project.ede file in the directory or a parent
      directory of an opened file.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All EDE users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-xemacs/ede-1.07"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0035">CVE-2012-0035</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-12-03T22:46:03Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-12-06T22:01:41Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>