GLSA 201401-31: CEDET: Privilege escalation

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Severity:	normal
Title:	CEDET: Privilege escalation
Date:	01/27/2014
Bugs:	#398227
ID:	201401-31

Synopsis

A vulnerability in CEDET could result in privilege escalation.

Background

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

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
app-emacs/cedet	< 1.0.1	>= 1.0.1	All supported architectures

Description

An untrusted search path vulnerability was discovered in CEDET.

Impact

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

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

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

CVE-2012-0035

Availability

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?

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.