Vulnerability CVE-2014-3421
Published: 2014-05-08

Description:
lisp/gnus/gnus-fun.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/gnus.face.ppm temporary file.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
GNU Emacs Predictable temporary filenames
Steve
08.05.2014

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
3.3/10
4.9/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Mageia project -> Mageia 
GNU -> Emacs 

 References:
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:117
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/07/7
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2014-05/msg00055.html
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17428#8
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0250.html
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