Xemacs vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Xemacs is made by Gnu. We track 3 published vulnerabilities in it, across 1 version. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Xemacs, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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None of Xemacs's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which Xemacs flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 5.5%CVE-2001-0191Critical
gnuserv before 3.12, as shipped with XEmacs, does not properly check the specified length of an X Windows MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE cookie, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a buffer overflow, or...
- 4.3%CVE-2005-0100High
Format string vulnerability in the movemail utility in (1) Emacs 20.x, 21.3, and possibly other versions, and (2) XEmacs 21.4 and earlier, allows remote malicious POP3 servers to execute arbitrary code via crafted...
- 3.7%CVE-2008-2142Medium
Emacs 21 and XEmacs automatically load and execute .flc (fast lock) files that are associated with other files that are edited within Emacs, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code.
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gnuserv before 3.12, as shipped with XEmacs, does not properly check the specified length of an X Windows MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE cookie, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a buffer overflow, or brute force authentication by using a short cookie length.
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We track 3 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Xemacs, across 1 version.
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