Package name xemacs
Date July 23rd, 2008
Advisory ID MDVSA-2008:154
Affected versions CS3.0

Problem Description

A vulnerability in xemacs was found where an attacker could provide
a group of files containing local variable definitions and arbitrary
Lisp code to be executed when one of the provided files is opened by
xemacs (CVE-2008-2142).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Updated Packages

Corporate Server 3.0

 e0986da570ec923b469a5f23efdb4538  corporate/3.0/i586/xemacs-21.4.15-5.2.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 3beba91071cfd28058b2e99694fc7726  corporate/3.0/i586/xemacs-devel-21.4.15-5.2.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 7cb5ac450bf9aeeed94bd138bdc82cdb  corporate/3.0/i586/xemacs-el-21.4.15-5.2.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 a5aedca9c3340a6d354376191303e8e1  corporate/3.0/i586/xemacs-extras-21.4.15-5.2.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 c33a8054e1f35ad9c36d60c28d2ae0e7  corporate/3.0/i586/xemacs-packages-21.4.15-5.2.C30mdk.i586.rpm 
 a6dad6c62c77c973ecee89e9f9eb7f32  corporate/3.0/SRPMS/xemacs-21.4.15-5.2.C30mdk.src.rpm

Corporate Server 3.0/X86_64

 80e20b9c79f16ed724d83a9b4219408d  corporate/3.0/x86_64/xemacs-21.4.15-5.2.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 5596fce531b255858ce572883ffa5692  corporate/3.0/x86_64/xemacs-devel-21.4.15-5.2.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 f019a4bfb2fee7558ac4edbffa0e5c73  corporate/3.0/x86_64/xemacs-el-21.4.15-5.2.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 4a863f88ff3c85a1c10aa1a795b2419e  corporate/3.0/x86_64/xemacs-extras-21.4.15-5.2.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 08e1e58a1583ff7298b1eb1001baa751  corporate/3.0/x86_64/xemacs-packages-21.4.15-5.2.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm 
 a6dad6c62c77c973ecee89e9f9eb7f32  corporate/3.0/SRPMS/xemacs-21.4.15-5.2.C30mdk.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2142

Upgrade

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Verification

Please verify the update prior to upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this with the command :

		rpm --checksig package.rpm
		

You can get the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team to verify the GPG signature of each RPM.

If you use MandrivaUpdate, the verification of md5 checksum and GPG signature is performed automatically for you.