GNU Emacs Lets Remote Users Deny Service
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1018277 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1018277
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2007-2833
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Jun 21 2007
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Impact:
Denial of service via network
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Exploit Included: Yes
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Version(s): 21, possibly other versions
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in GNU Emacs. A remote user can cause denial of service conditions.
A remote user can send a specially crafted e-mail message to cause the target emacs application to crash.
A demonstration exploit e-mail message is available at:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=spam-bug;att=1;bug=408929
This vulnerability was reported by Debian.
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Impact:
A remote user can cause denial of service conditions.
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Solution:
No solution was available at the time of this entry.
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Vendor URL: www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Input validation error
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Underlying OS:
Linux (Any), UNIX (Any)
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Message History:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:41:03 -0400
Subject: GNU Emacs
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CVE-2007-2833
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