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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-1000383: Vulnerability in GNU Emacs

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-1000383: Vulnerability in GNU Emacs

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/31/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/18/2018
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

GNU Emacs version 25.3.1 (and other versions most likely) ignores umask when creating a backup save file ("[ORIGINAL_FILENAME]~") resulting in files that may be world readable or otherwise accessible in ways not intended by the user running the emacs binary.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-editor-gnu-emacs-24-3-0-175-3-25-0-2-0

References

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