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Ubuntu: Emacs vulnerabilities

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that Emacs did not account for precision when formatting integers. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly other unspecified actions. This issue does not affect Ubuntu 8.04. (CVE-2007-6109) Steve Grubb discovered that the vcdiff script as included in Emacs created temporary files in an insecure way when used with SCCS. Local users could exploit a race condition to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2008-1694)

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b2m

b2m(1)							      General Commands Manual							    b2m(1)

NAME

       b2m - convert old Emacs Rmail Babyl format to mbox format

SYNOPSIS

       b2m < babyl-file > mbox-file

DESCRIPTION

       b2m  accepts Babyl format mail (as used by older versions of Rmail in GNU Emacs) on standard input, and converts it to mbox format on stan-
       dard output.  Babyl was the storage format used by Rmail prior to Emacs 23.1.  Since then, it uses standard mbox format.  This  program	is
       distributed with GNU Emacs.

OPTIONS

       The program accepts unambiguous abbreviations for long option names.

       -V, --version
	      Display version information.

       -h, --help
	      Display basic usage information.

SEE ALSO

       The  Babyl  format  is  described in the file etc/BABYL in the Emacs distribution.  Rmail is documented in the GNU Emacs manual, which  you
       can  read  using Info, either from Emacs or as a standalone program.

AUTHORS

       b2m was originally written by Ed Wilkinson.  Francesco Potorti updated it according to the GNU coding standards.

COPYING

       Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

       Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this document provided the copyright notice and this permission notice  are
       preserved on all copies.

       Permission  is  granted	to copy and distribute modified versions of this document under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that
       the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.

       Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this document into another language, under the above conditions  for  modified
       versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation.

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