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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63471
Category:Gentoo Local Security Checks
Title:Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200902-06 (emacs edit-utils)
Summary:The remote host is missing updates announced in;advisory GLSA 200902-06.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory GLSA 200902-06.

Vulnerability Insight:
Two vulnerabilities were found in GNU Emacs, possibly leading to
user-assisted execution of arbitrary code. One also affects edit-utils in
XEmacs.

Solution:
All GNU Emacs users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-editors/emacs-22.2-r3'

All edit-utils users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-xemacs/edit-utils-2.39'

CVSS Score:
7.2

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-2142
BugTraq ID: 29176
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29176
Bugtraq: 20080527 rPSA-2008-0177-1 emacs emacs-leim (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492657/100/0/threaded
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00736.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00782.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200902-06.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:153
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:154
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/96903
http://tracker.xemacs.org/XEmacs/its/issue378
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-05/msg00645.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020019
http://secunia.com/advisories/30199
http://secunia.com/advisories/30216
http://secunia.com/advisories/30303
http://secunia.com/advisories/30581
http://secunia.com/advisories/30827
http://secunia.com/advisories/34004
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2008:012 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00001.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1539/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1540/references
XForce ISS Database: xemacs-gnuemacs-flc-code-execution(42362)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42362
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-3949
BugTraq ID: 31052
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31052
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:216
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-09/msg00215.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31982
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2008:018 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html
XForce ISS Database: emacs-python-code-execution(45021)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45021
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