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<glsa id="201401-31">
  <title>CEDET: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in CEDET could result in privilege escalation.</synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">cedet</product>
  <announced>January 27, 2014</announced>
  <revised>January 27, 2014: 2</revised>
  <bug>398227</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-emacs/cedet" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.0.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>CEDET is a Collection of Emacs Development Environment Tools written
      with the end goal of creating an advanced development environment in
      Emacs.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>An untrusted search path vulnerability was discovered in CEDET.</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 CEDET users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-emacs/cedet-1.0.1"
    </code>
    
    <p>NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are
      available since February  01, 2012. It is likely that your system is
      already no longer affected by this issue.
    </p>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0035">CVE-2012-0035</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:22:27 +0000">ago</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:57:54 +0000">Zlogene</metadata>
</glsa>