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Emacs is a widely used, freely available text editor, maintained by the Free Software Foundation. A problem with emacs could allow local users access to sensitive information. The problem occurs in the permission settings of the slave terminal. While running, emacs does not set adequately restrictive permissions on the slave terminals, making it possible for a user on the local system to monitor the slave terminals and emacs sessions of other users. It is also possible for a local user to forge responses to the emacs client. This issue makes it possible for a malicious user to access information being edited by other users of emacs, and create forged responses to the emacs client.

Emacs is a widely used, freely available text editor, maintained by the Free Software Foundation. A problem with emacs could allow local users access to sensitive information. The problem occurs in the permission settings of the slave terminal. While running, emacs does not set adequately restrictive permissions on the slave terminals, making it possible for a user on the local system to monitor the slave terminals and emacs sessions of other users. It is also possible for a local user to forge responses to the emacs client. This issue makes it possible for a malicious user to access information being edited by other users of emacs, and create forged responses to the emacs client.