Gentoo: GLSA-201812-05 Normal: EDE Privilege Escalation Threat
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December 6, 2018
A vulnerability in EDE could result in privilege escalation.
Summary
An untrusted search path vulnerability was discovered in EDE.
Resolution
All EDE users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-xemacs/ede-1.07"
References
[ 1 ] CVE-2012-0035 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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/201812-05
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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: EDE: Privilege escalation
Date: December 06, 2018
Bugs: #398241
ID: 201812-05
Background
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.
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Affected Packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-xemacs/ede < 1.07 >= 1.07
Impact
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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.
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