Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1316-1 emacs21 -- denial of service

Date Reported:

21 Jun 2007

Affected Packages:

emacs21

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 408929.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-2833.

More information:

It has been discovered that emacs, the GNU Emacs editor, will crash when processing certain types of images.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 21.4a+1-3etch1.

We recommend that you upgrade your emacs21 package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.4a+1.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.4a+1-3etch1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.4a+1-3etch1.dsc
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-common_21.4a+1-3etch1_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-el_21.4a+1-3etch1_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs_21.4a+1-3etch1_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.4a+1-3etch1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-nox_21.4a+1-3etch1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-bin-common_21.4a+1-3etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-nox_21.4a+1-3etch1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.4a+1-3etch1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-bin-common_21.4a+1-3etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-nox_21.4a+1-3etch1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.4a+1-3etch1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-bin-common_21.4a+1-3etch1_arm.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-nox_21.4a+1-3etch1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.4a+1-3etch1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-bin-common_21.4a+1-3etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-bin-common_21.4a+1-3etch1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.4a+1-3etch1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-nox_21.4a+1-3etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-bin-common_21.4a+1-3etch1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-nox_21.4a+1-3etch1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.4a+1-3etch1_ia64.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.4a+1-3etch1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-nox_21.4a+1-3etch1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-bin-common_21.4a+1-3etch1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-nox_21.4a+1-3etch1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-bin-common_21.4a+1-3etch1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.4a+1-3etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.4a+1-3etch1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-nox_21.4a+1-3etch1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-bin-common_21.4a+1-3etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-nox_21.4a+1-3etch1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.4a+1-3etch1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-bin-common_21.4a+1-3etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.4a+1-3etch1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-bin-common_21.4a+1-3etch1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-nox_21.4a+1-3etch1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.