GLSA 201812-05: EDE: Privilege escalation

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Severity:	normal
Title:	EDE: Privilege escalation
Date:	12/06/2018
Bugs:	#398241
ID:	201812-05

Synopsis

A vulnerability in EDE could result in privilege escalation.

Background

A package that simplifies the task of creating, building, and debugging large programs with Emacs. It provides some of the features of an IDE, or Integrated Development Environment, in Emacs.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
app-xemacs/ede	< 1.07	>= 1.07	All supported architectures

Description

An untrusted search path vulnerability was discovered in EDE.

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 EDE users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-xemacs/ede-1.07"

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-201812-05.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.