Vulnerability in Gnu Emacs

CVE-2000-0269

Emacs 20 does not properly set permissions for a slave PTY device when starting a new subprocess, which allows local users to read or modify communications between Emacs and the subprocess.

EPSS: 0.004 (29.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Gnu Emacs — versions 20.0, 20.1, 20.2
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)