Ubuntu Security Notice USN-919-1: Emacs Vulnerability Publication Date: - 29 March 2010 Overview: - Emacs vulnerability Releases: - 9.10 - 9.04 - 8.10 - 8.04 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. Update Instructions: - In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Learn more about how to get the fixes. - The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: - References: - CVE-2010-0825