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Incorrect Privilege Assignment Affecting emacs-nox package, versions *

Severity

 Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL6-EMACSNOX-1360004
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 31 Oct 2017
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Introduced: 31 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-1000383 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-266 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 emacs-nox.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream emacs-nox package and not the emacs-nox package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.