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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-20
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Severity: Normal
Title: Emacs, XEmacs: Format string vulnerabilities in movemail
Date: February 15, 2005
Bugs: #79686
ID: 200502-20
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Synopsis
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The movemail utility shipped with Emacs and XEmacs contains several
format string vulnerabilities, potentially leading to the execution of
arbitrary code.
Background
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GNU Emacs and XEmacs are highly extensible and customizable text
editors. movemail is an Emacs utility that can fetch mail on remote
mail servers.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-editors/emacs < 21.4 >= 21.4
2 app-editors/xemacs < 21.4.15-r3 >= 21.4.15-r3
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2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures.
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Description
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Max Vozeler discovered that the movemail utility contains several
format string errors.
Impact
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An attacker could set up a malicious POP server and entice a user to
connect to it using movemail, resulting in the execution of arbitrary
code with the rights of the victim user.
Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
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All Emacs users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-editors/emacs-21.4"
All XEmacs users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-editors/xemacs-21.4.15-r3"
References
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[ 1 ] CAN-2005-0100
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0100
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-20.xml
Concerns?
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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@xxxxxxxxxx or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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