| Description: | Description:
The remote host is missing an update to xemacs-packages-extra
announced via advisory FEDORA-2008-5504.
XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and
application development system. It is protected under the GNU General
Public License and related to other versions of Emacs, in particular
GNU Emacs. Its emphasis is on modern graphical user interface support
and an open software development model, similar to Linux.
The XEmacs packages collection contains a large collection of useful
lisp packages for XEmacs including mailreaders, programming modes and
utilities, and packages related to using XEmacs in multi-lingual
environments.
Update Information:
* Wed Jun 18 2008 Ville Skyttä - 20070427-2 - Apply
upstream security fix for CVE-2008-2142 (#446069).
References:
[ 1 ] Bug #446069 - CVE-2008-2142 emacs: fast-lock-mode arbitrary lisp code execution
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446069
Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.
This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update xemacs-packages-extra' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2008-5504
Risk factor : High
CVSS Score:
6.8
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