CVE-2008-2142

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    CVE-2008-2142

    Published: 12 May 2008Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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 code.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/30199, http://secunia.com/advisories/30216, http://secunia.com/advisories/30303, http://secunia.com/advisories/30581, http://secunia.com/advisories/30827, http://secunia.com/advisories/34004, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200902-06.xml, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:153, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:154, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1539/references, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1540/references, http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/96903, http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-05/msg00645.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00001.html, http://tracker.xemacs.org/XEmacs/its/issue378, http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0177, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492657/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29176, http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020019, https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221197, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42362, https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2529, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00736.html, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00782.html

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High