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Gentoo: 201401-31 High: CEDET Privilege Escalation Risk

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The CVE-2023-XXXX vulnerability threatens privilege escalation on Debian systems. Install the most recent update to ensure safety.
A vulnerability in CEDET could result in privilege escalation.

Summary

An untrusted search path vulnerability was discovered in CEDET.

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo privilege escalation system upgrade cedet

Resolution

All CEDET users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emacs/cedet-1.0.1"
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.

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2012-0035 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0035

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201401-31
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

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Severity: Normal
Title: CEDET: Privilege escalation
Date: January 27, 2014
Bugs: #398227
ID: 201401-31

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Topics Covered

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Synopsis

A vulnerability in CEDET could result in privilege escalation.

Background

CEDET is a Collection of Emacs Development Environment Tools written with the end goal of creating an advanced development environment in Emacs.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-emacs/cedet < 1.0.1 >= 1.0.1

Impact

===== 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.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.