CVE-2008-2142 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-2142 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 389154 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2008:012, published Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 04:06:03 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:26:16 2023