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>> Gentoo Security Update Fixes GNU Emacs Security Bypass Vulnerabilities

Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes GNU Emacs Security Bypass Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-4118
CVE ID : CVE-2007-5795 - CVE-2007-6109
CWE ID : VUPEN VNS Only
CVSS V2 : VUPEN VNS Only
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-12-10

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Multiple vulnerability have been identified in Gentoo, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. These issues are caused by errors in GNU Emacs. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3715

Affected Products

app-editors/emacs versions prior to 22.1-r3

Solution

Upgrade the affected package :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=app-editors/emacs-22.1-r3"

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4118
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-03.xml

ChangeLog

2007-12-10 : Initial release

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