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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201401-31

Posted on 28 January 2014
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201401-31
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Severity: Normal
Title: CEDET: Privilege escalation
Date: January 27, 2014
Bugs: #398227
ID: 201401-31

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Synopsis
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A vulnerability in CEDET could result in privilege escalation.

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

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

Description
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An untrusted search path vulnerability was discovered in CEDET.

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
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There is no known workaround at this time.

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

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-31.xml

Concerns?
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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.

License
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Copyright 2014 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

 

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