CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0269

2.1 LOW Published 2000-04-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-04-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• gnu emacs 20.0 • gnu emacs 20.1 • gnu emacs 20.2 • gnu emacs 20.3 • gnu emacs 20.4 • gnu emacs 20.5 • gnu emacs 20.6

References