Pardus Linux Security Advisory - Romain Francoise has found a security risk in a feature of GNU Emacs related to how Emacs interacts with Python.
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2008-41 security@pardus.org.tr
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Date: 2008-09-06
Severity: 2
Type: Remote
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Summary
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Romain Francoise has found a security risk in a feature of GNU Emacs
related to how Emacs interacts with Python.
Description
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The vulnerability may allow an attacker to run malicious code if the
user runs the Emacs command `run-python' while the current directory is
world-writable, or if the user toggles `eldoc-mode' and visits a Python
source file in a world-writable directory.
Affected packages:
Pardus 2008:
emacs, all before 23.0.60_20080624-22-6
Pardus 2007:
emacs, all before 22.1-17-17
Resolution
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There are update(s) for emacs. You can update them via Package Manager
or with a single command from console:
Pardus 2008:
pisi up emacs
Pardus 2007:
pisi up emacs
References
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* http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=8128
* http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-09/msg00215.html
* http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/emacs-diffs@gnu.org/9983157.html
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Pınar Yanardağ
Pardus Security Team
http://security.pardus.org.tr