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Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 17:42:11 -0500 (EST)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
cc: "oss-security@...ts.openwall.com" <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>,
Assign a CVE Identifier <cve-assign@...re.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request for emacs possibly
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774090
>
> From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@...c17.net>
> To: 774090@...s.debian.org
> Subject: Re: emacs24: a left-click in Emacs sometimes modifies the
> PRIMARY selection
> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:58:55 +0100
> Control: tags -1 security
>
> On 2014-12-28 16:29:12 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> Note: This bug occurs very often and is very annoying, as one needs
>> to reselect what was selected (sometimes hardly possible). Moreover
>> the wrongly pasted text is similar to the correct text[*], meaning
>> that if one doesn't pay attention, one gets a file with permanently
>> incorrect data!
>
> Grrr... That's also a security problem. Due to this bug, a paste with
> a middle click in a web browser can end up in pasting private data!
> And Javascript can provide the pasted text to the web site immediately
> (Facebook does that), before the user can notice the problem.
Use CVE-2014-9483.
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