<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201401-31"> <title>CEDET: Privilege escalation</title> <synopsis>A vulnerability in CEDET could result in privilege escalation.</synopsis> <product type="ebuild">cedet</product> <announced>2014-01-27</announced> <revised count="2">2014-01-27</revised> <bug>398227</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="app-emacs/cedet" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.0.1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>CEDET is a Collection of Emacs Development Environment Tools written with the end goal of creating an advanced development environment in Emacs. </p> </background> <description> <p>An untrusted search path vulnerability was discovered in CEDET.</p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A local attacker could escalate his privileges via a specially crafted Lisp expression in a Project.ede file in the directory or a parent directory of an opened file. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All CEDET users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emacs/cedet-1.0.1" </code> <p>NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are available since February 01, 2012. It is likely that your system is already no longer affected by this issue. </p> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0035">CVE-2012-0035</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2012-02-01T17:22:27Z">ago</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-01-27T09:57:54Z">Zlogene</metadata> </glsa>