CVE-2008-2142
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.66% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 89.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-05-12 19:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 08:49Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-05-12
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-829Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control SphereBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- cff7ea40fc65c6f99368020e47ed86b9aa9460c2b5d6e1cfd10cca98fdb7b0f9
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-5504https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00782.html
- issues.rpath.comhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2529
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-1539http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1539/references
- www.securityfocus.com20080527 rPSA-2008-0177-1 emacs emacs-leimhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492657/100/0/threaded
- secunia.com30827http://secunia.com/advisories/30827
- www.securitytracker.com1020019http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020019
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SR:2008:012http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00001.html
- secunia.com30199http://secunia.com/advisories/30199
- bugs.gentoo.orghttps://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221197
- secunia.com30303http://secunia.com/advisories/30303
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200902-06http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200902-06.xml
- secunia.com30216http://secunia.com/advisories/30216
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2008:154http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:154
- www.securityfocus.com29176http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29176
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2008:153http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:153
- wiki.rpath.comhttp://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0177
- secunia.com34004http://secunia.com/advisories/34004
- lists.gnu.org[emacs-devel] 20080510 [mwelinder@bogus.example.com: Emacs security bug]http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-05/msg00645.html
- thread.gmane.orghttp://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/96903
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-5446https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00736.html
- tracker.xemacs.orghttp://tracker.xemacs.org/XEmacs/its/issue378
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-1540http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1540/references
- secunia.com30581http://secunia.com/advisories/30581
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comxemacs-gnuemacs-flc-code-execution(42362)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42362
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- xemacs21-packages Fixed in 2009.02.17-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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