Bug 1095586 (CVE-2014-3421, CVE-2014-3422, CVE-2014-3423, CVE-2014-3424)

Summary:	CVE-2014-3421 CVE-2014-3422 CVE-2014-3423 CVE-2014-3424 emacs: multiple temporary file issues
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jchaloup, jkurik, jonathan.underwood, jrusnack, magoldma, mmcallis, phracek, sisharma
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1095587
Bug Blocks:	1095588

Description Murray McAllister 2014-05-08 05:22:29 UTC

Steve Kemp discovered multiple temporary file handling issues in Emacs. A local attacker could use these flaws to perform symbolic link attacks against users running Emacs. Original report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747100

CVE-2014-3421 was assigned to the issue in lisp/gnus/gnus-fun.el
Upstream fix: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2014-05/msg00055.html

CVE-2014-3422 was assigned to the issue in lisp/emacs-lisp/find-gc.el
Upstream fix: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2014-05/msg00056.html

CVE-2014-3423 was assigned to the issue in lisp/net/browse-url.el (this one does not currently have a fix)
Upstream note: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2014-05/msg00057.html

CVE-2014-3424 was assigned to the issue in lisp/net/tramp.el
Upstream fix: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2014-05/msg00060.html

References:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747100
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/269
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17428

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-05-08 05:23:52 UTC

Created emacs tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1095587]

Comment 2 Murray McAllister 2014-05-08 05:25:08 UTC

xemacs-21.5.31 did not have any of the affected files

Comment 5 Siddharth Sharma 2014-07-31 09:06:21 UTC

CVE-2014-3421 CVE-2014-3422 CVE-2014-3423 CVE-2014-3424

To execute symbolic link attacks attacker should have at least a user level access to the system where attack would be performed. This is a file overwrite issue, attacker can create symbolic link to a file that is readable by attacker for e.g ln -s /etc/shadow /tmp/esrc or ln -s /etc/passwd /tmp/Mosaic.$PID. If Emacs session is ran by a normal user without any extra privileges , attacker would be stopped to create such links where a normal user don't have any permissions, if the Emacs is ran with root then the attacker would have more privileges.

Comment 8 Petr Hracek 2015-01-20 13:57:26 UTC

The bug can be close because of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095587 is already closed, right?

Or will there be a emacs updates for RHEL 5, 6 and 7?

Greetings
Petr

Comment 14 Vincent Danen 2015-01-20 14:58:09 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.