Vulnerability in Gnu Emacs
CVE-2014-3421
lisp/gnus/gnus-fun.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/gnus.face.ppm temporary file.
EPSS: 0.001 (30.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Gnu Emacs — versions 20.0, 20.1, 20.2
- Mageia_project Mageia — versions 3, 4
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- [oss-security] 20140507 Re: CVE Request - Predictable temporary filenames in GNU Emacs (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- [emacs-diffs] 20140506 emacs-24 r117066: * gnus-fun.el (gnus-grab-cam-face): Do not use predictable temp-file name. (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- MDVSA-2015:117 (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)