Emacs vulnerability

2010-03-2900:00:00

ubuntu.com

5.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

4.4 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.2%

JSON

Releases

Ubuntu 9.10
Ubuntu 9.04
Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

emacs22 -
emacs23 -

Details

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the email helper in Emacs did not correctly
check file permissions. A local attacker could perform a symlink race
to read or append to another user’s mailbox if it was stored under a
group-writable group-“mail” directory.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu9.10noarchemacs23-bin-common< 23.1+1-4ubuntu3.2UNKNOWN
Ubuntu9.10noarchemacs23< 23.1+1-4ubuntu3.2UNKNOWN
Ubuntu9.10noarchemacs23-lucid< 23.1+1-4ubuntu3.2UNKNOWN
Ubuntu9.10noarchemacs23-nox< 23.1+1-4ubuntu3.2UNKNOWN
Ubuntu9.10noarchemacs22-bin-common< 22.2-0ubuntu6.2UNKNOWN
Ubuntu9.10noarchemacs22< 22.2-0ubuntu6.2UNKNOWN
Ubuntu9.10noarchemacs22-gtk< 22.2-0ubuntu6.2UNKNOWN
Ubuntu9.10noarchemacs22-nox< 22.2-0ubuntu6.2UNKNOWN
Ubuntu9.04noarchemacs22-bin-common< 22.2-0ubuntu2.9.04.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu9.04noarchemacs22< 22.2-0ubuntu2.9.04.1UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
Ubuntu	9.10	noarch	emacs23-bin-common	< 23.1+1-4ubuntu3.2	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	9.10	noarch	emacs23	< 23.1+1-4ubuntu3.2	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	9.10	noarch	emacs23-lucid	< 23.1+1-4ubuntu3.2	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	9.10	noarch	emacs23-nox	< 23.1+1-4ubuntu3.2	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	9.10	noarch	emacs22-bin-common	< 22.2-0ubuntu6.2	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	9.10	noarch	emacs22	< 22.2-0ubuntu6.2	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	9.10	noarch	emacs22-gtk	< 22.2-0ubuntu6.2	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	9.10	noarch	emacs22-nox	< 22.2-0ubuntu6.2	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	9.04	noarch	emacs22-bin-common	< 22.2-0ubuntu2.9.04.1	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	9.04	noarch	emacs22	< 22.2-0ubuntu2.9.04.1	UNKNOWN