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CVE-2008-2142

Date: May 12, 2008

Emacs 21 and XEmacs automatically load and execute .flc (fast lock) files that are associated with other files that are edited within Emacs, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Severity Score

5.6

Related Resources (28)

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1539/references

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30216

Url: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221197

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30199

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492657/100/0/threaded

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:154

Url: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2529

Url: http://tracker.xemacs.org/XEmacs/its/issue378

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:153

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00001.html

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020019

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30581

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-2142

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1540/references

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42362

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-2142

Url: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0177

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30303

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200902-06.xml

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34004

Url: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-05/msg00645.html

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00782.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30827

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29176

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2142

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00736.html

Url: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/96903

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-2142

Severity Score

5.6

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.6
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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Date: May 12, 2008

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