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5.3 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
  • Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Attack Requirement (AT): None (N)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): Passive (P)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): Low (L)
  • Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): None (N)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): Passive (P)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): None (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Low (L)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
  • Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
  • Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
  • Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
  • Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
  • Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
  • Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
  • Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
  • Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
  • Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
  • Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
updated 1 month ago by @LeSuisse Activity log
  • Created suggestion 1 month ago
  • @LeSuisse dismissed 1 month ago
Off-by-One Error in GNU Emacs for Android

GNU Emacs for Android contains an off-by-one error in the gvar table parser in src/sfnt.c. The shared-coordinate index boundary check in sfnt_vary_simple_glyph() and sfnt_vary_compound_glyph() uses a strict greater-than comparison instead of greater-than-or-equal, allowing a crafted TrueType variable font to bypass the check and trigger a heap-based out-of-bounds read via memcpy. An attacker can deliver a malicious font file via email, EWW (Emacs Web Wowser), or documents with custom faces, causing Emacs to load it. This exposes heap memory contents which can be later used to defeat ASLR. This issue was fixed in commit 95ab9ef627b212d74d321c5bbb5b56a1be7b9fbe

Affected products

Emacs
  • =<30.2

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Not for us, Android