GNU bug report logs - #18939
24.4; a left-click in Emacs sometimes modifies the PRIMARY selection

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>

Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 20:58:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: security

Found in version 24.4

Done: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: rjs <at> netti.fi (Riku Saikkonen)
Cc: 18939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18939: 24.4; middle-click sometimes pastes data other than the PRIMARY selection
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 20:17:32 -0500

Riku Saikkonen wrote:

> PS. I found out about this bug because Debian currently considers it to
>     be a release-critical bug; see <http://bugs.debian.org/774090>.

FWIW, that severity was self-assigned by the OP.

For those who care about such things, this has apparently has a
(placeholder?) CVE number (CVE-2014-9483) now. (It might have been nice
if these developments had been mentioned here.)

See eg
http://www.scip.ch/en/?vuldb.68502                   # "critical" (?!)
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/99688              # medium risk
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