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FKIE_CVE-2012-0035

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-01-19 15:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:36
Severity
Summary
Untrusted search path vulnerability in EDE in CEDET before 1.0.1, as used in GNU Emacs before 23.4 and other products, allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted Lisp expression in a Project.ede file in the directory, or a parent directory, of an opened file.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/072285.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/072288.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-01/msg00387.htmlPatch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/10/2Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/10/4
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/47311Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/47515Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/50801
secalert@redhat.comhttp://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28649762
secalert@redhat.comhttp://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28657612
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:076
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1586-1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-05
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/072285.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/072288.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-01/msg00387.htmlPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/10/2Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/10/4
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/47311Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/47515Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/50801
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28649762
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28657612
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:076
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1586-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-05
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
eric_m_ludlam cedet *
eric_m_ludlam cedet 1.0
eric_m_ludlam cedet 1.0
eric_m_ludlam cedet 1.0
eric_m_ludlam cedet 1.0
eric_m_ludlam cedet 1.0
eric_m_ludlam cedet 1.0
eric_m_ludlam cedet 1.0
eric_m_ludlam cedet 1.0
eric_m_ludlam cedet 1.0
gnu emacs *
gnu emacs 20.0
gnu emacs 20.1
gnu emacs 20.2
gnu emacs 20.3
gnu emacs 20.4
gnu emacs 20.5
gnu emacs 20.6
gnu emacs 20.7
gnu emacs 21
gnu emacs 21.1
gnu emacs 21.2
gnu emacs 21.2.1
gnu emacs 21.3
gnu emacs 21.3.1
gnu emacs 21.4
gnu emacs 22.1
gnu emacs 22.2
gnu emacs 22.3
gnu emacs 23.1
gnu emacs 23.2
gnu emacs 23.4
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