Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.61318
Category:	Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:	Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2008:153 (emacs)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to emacs announced via advisory MDVSA-2008:153. A vulnerability in emacs was found where an attacker could provide a group of files containing local variable definitions and arbitrary Lisp code to be executed when one of the provided files is opened by emacs (CVE-2008-2142). The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. Affected: 2007.1, 2008.0, 2008.1, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0 Solution: To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2008:153 Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 6.8
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
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