Bug 912872 (CVE-2014-9483) - VUL-1: CVE-2014-9483: a left-click in Emacs sometimes modifies the PRIMARY selection
Summary: VUL-1: CVE-2014-9483: a left-click in Emacs sometimes modifies the PRIMARY se...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2014-9483
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P4 - Low : Minor
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QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/112006/
Whiteboard: CVSSv2:SUSE:CVE-2014-9483:1.9:(AV:L/A...
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Reported: 2015-01-13 09:51 UTC by Victor Pereira
Modified: 2020-06-13 17:01 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Victor Pereira 2015-01-13 09:51:58 UTC 
CVE-2014-9483

a left-click in Emacs sometimes modifies the PRIMARY selection

Note: This bug occurs 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!

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-9483
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-2014-9483.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9483
Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2015-01-13 10:32:19 UTC 
Hmm ... never seen that and I'm a emacs user. Also it seems that the report

  http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=18939
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774090
  
is about GNU Emacs 24.4(.1), beside this I'm not to reproduce with 24.4(.1) with the description from the second URL.
Comment 2 Dr. Werner Fink 2015-01-13 11:04:30 UTC 
Ahha ... now after some tries I can reproduce with

  cp /etc/hosts /tmp/test.txt
  emacs -Q /tmp/test.txt

and the instruction from

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774090
Comment 3 Dr. Werner Fink 2015-01-13 15:21:27 UTC 
Please test out if older GNU Emacs do also fail.
Comment 4 Bernhard Wiedemann 2015-01-13 18:00:07 UTC 
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (912872) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/281053 Factory / emacs
Comment 5 Dr. Werner Fink 2015-05-04 07:57:20 UTC 
No one is interested in checking out
Comment 6 Johannes Segitz 2017-09-14 05:55:14 UTC 
Factory only is enough for this