Synopsis
semi security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Low
Topic
Updated semi packages that fix vulnerabilities in flim temporary filehandling are now available
Description
The semi package includes a MIME library for GNU Emacs and XEmacs used bythe wl mail packageTatsuya Kinoshit ...
Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered a vulnerability in flim, an emacs library
for working with internet messages, where temporary files were created
without taking appropriate precautions This vulnerability could
potentially be exploited by a local user to overwrite files with the
privileges of the user running emacs
For the current stable distribution ...