CEDET: Privilege escalation

CEDET: Privilege escalation A vulnerability in CEDET could result in privilege escalation. cedet 2014-01-27 2014-01-27 398227 local 1.0.1 1.0.1

CEDET is a Collection of Emacs Development Environment Tools written with the end goal of creating an advanced development environment in Emacs.

An untrusted search path vulnerability was discovered in CEDET.

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.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All CEDET users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emacs/cedet-1.0.1"

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.

CVE-2012-0035 ago Zlogene