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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-2142 Detail

Current Description

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.


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

Weakness Enumeration

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-2142
NVD Published Date:
05/12/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE