CVE-2014-3422: GNU Emacs

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

lisp/emacs-lisp/find-gc.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file under /tmp/esrc/.

Affected products

• GNU Emacs: up to and including 24.3; version 20.0 only; version 20.1 only; version 20.2 only; version 20.3 only; version 20.4 only; …
• Mageia Project Mageia: version 3 only; version 4 only

Published 2014-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.