The semi package includes a MIME library for GNU Emacs and XEmacs used by the wl mail package. Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered a vulnerability in flim, an emacs library for working with Internet messages included in the semi package. Temporary files were being created without taking adequate precautions, and therefore a local user could potentially overwrite files with the privileges of the user running emacs. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-344.html http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0422 ------- Additional Comments From dwb7.edu 2004-08-30 08:47:02 ---- It would appear that under AS2.1, flim and semi are part of the same package, denoted semi, whereas on RH7.3 semi and flim are two separate RPMs. This vulnerability is fixed for 7.3 in: flim-1.14.4-4.7x.legacy ------- Additional Comments From marcdeslauriers 2004-08-30 14:00:09 ---- You're right. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1581 *** ------- Bug moved to this database by dkl 2005-03-30 18:26 ------- This bug previously known as bug 2004 at https://bugzilla.fedora.us/ https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2004 Originally filed under the Fedora Legacy product and Package request component. Unknown priority P2. Setting to default priority "normal". Unknown platform PC. Setting to default platform "All". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.