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GNU Emacs: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background GNU Emacs is a highly extensible and customizable text editor. Description Drake Wilson reported that the hack-local-variables function in GNU Emacs 22 does not properly match assignments of local variables in a file against a list of unsafe or risky variables, allowing to override the...
TRAMP: Insecure temporary file creation
Background TRAMP is a remote file editing package for GNU Emacs, a highly extensible and customizable text editor. Description Stefan Monnier discovered that the tramp-make-tramp-temp-file function creates temporary files in an insecure manner. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links ...
GNU emacs DoS
Crash on images processing...
DSA-1316-1 emacs21
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Emacs, XEmacs: Format string vulnerabilities in movemail
Background GNU Emacs and XEmacs are highly extensible and customizable text editors. movemail is an Emacs utility that can fetch mail on remote mail servers. Description Max Vozeler discovered that the movemail utility contains several format string errors. Impact An attacker could set up a...
Debian DSA-339-1 : semi - insecure temporary file
NOTE: due to a combination of administrative problems, this advisory was erroneously released with the identifier 'DSA-337-1'. DSA-337-1 correctly refers to an earlier advisory regarding gtksee. semi, a MIME library for GNU Emacs, does not take appropriate security precautions when creating...
Debian DSA-430-1 : trr19 - missing privilege release
Steve Kemp discovered a problem in trr19, a type trainer application for GNU Emacs, which is written as a pair of setgid binaries and wrapper programs which execute commands for GNU Emacs. However, the binaries don't drop privileges before executing a command, allowing an attacker to gain access ...
RHEL 2.1 : semi (RHSA-2003:231)
Updated semi packages that fix vulnerabilities in semi's temporary file handling are now available. semi is a MIME library for GNU Emacs and XEmacs used by the wl mail package. A vulnerability in semi version 1.14.3 and earlier allows an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files with potentially...
DSA-430 trr19 - missing privilege release
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Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: semi security update
Updated semi packages that fix vulnerabilities in semi's temporary file handling are now available. semi is a MIME library for GNU Emacs and XEmacs used by the wl mail package. A vulnerability in semi version 1.14.3 and earlier allows an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files with potentially...
DSA-339 semi - insecure temporary file
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RUS-CERT.200004-01.txt
RUS-CERT Advisory 200004-01: GNU Emacs 20 RUS-CERT, University of Stuttgart 2000-04-18 Summary Several vulnerabilities were discovered in all Emacs versions up to 20.6, namely: Under certain circumstances, unprivileged local users can eavesdrop the communication between Emacs and its subprocesses...
RUS-CERT Advisory 200004-01: GNU Emacs 20
RUS-CERT Advisory 200004-01: GNU Emacs 20 RUS-CERT, University of Stuttgart 2000-04-18 Summary Several vulnerabilities were discovered in all Emacs versions up to 20.6, namely: Under certain circumstances, unprivileged local users can eavesdrop the communication between Emacs and its subprocesses...
Уязвимости GNU Emacs
В программах, основанных на Emacs можно контролировать PTY пользователя, небезопасно создаются временные файлы легко угадываемое имя, хранится последовательность нажатых клавиш, что позволяет извлечь пароль пользователя...