VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-3421

low
Published 2014-05-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
3.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnuemacs{"endIncluding":"24.3"}
gnuemacs20.0
gnuemacs20.1
gnuemacs20.2
gnuemacs20.3
gnuemacs20.4
gnuemacs20.5
gnuemacs20.6
gnuemacs20.7
gnuemacs21
gnuemacs21.1
gnuemacs21.2
gnuemacs21.2.1
gnuemacs21.3
gnuemacs21.3.1
gnuemacs21.4
gnuemacs22.1
gnuemacs22.2
gnuemacs22.3
gnuemacs23.1
gnuemacs23.2
gnuemacs23.3
gnuemacs23.4
gnuemacs24.1
gnuemacs24.2

References

CWEs

CWE-59

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.