CVE-2014-3422

low
Published 2014-05-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
3.3
VIR risk
3.3

Description

lisp/emacs-lisp/find-gc.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file under /tmp/esrc/.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3422

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debiansidfixed0

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

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