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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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ZILE(1) 							   User Commands							   ZILE(1)

NAME

       Zile - Zile Is Lossy Emacs

SYNOPSIS

       zile [OPTION-OR-FILENAME]...

DESCRIPTION

       Zile is a lightweight Emacs clone that provides a subset of Emacs's functionality suitable for basic editing.

       Run Zile, the lightweight Emacs clone.

       Initialization options:

       --no-init-file, -q
	      do not load ~/.zile

       --funcall, -f FUNC
	      call Zile Lisp function FUNC with no arguments

       --load, -l FILE
	      load Zile Lisp FILE using the load function

       --help display this help message and exit

       --version
	      display version information and exit

       Action options:

       FILE   visit FILE using find-file

       +LINE FILE
	      visit FILE using find-file, then go to line LINE

       Exit  status  is 0 if OK, 1 if it cannot start up, for example because of an invalid command-line argument, and 2 if it crashes or runs out
       of memory.

FILES

       ~/.zile -- user's Zile init file

       /usr/share/zile/dotzile-extra.el -- which contains some useful code for the init file.

AUTHOR

       Zile was written by Sandro Sigala, David A. Capello and Reuben Thomas.  The Lisp interpreter is based on code by Scott Lawrence.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to bug-zile@gnu.org.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  GNU Zile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  You may redistribute copies of  Zile  under
       the terms of the GNU General Public License.  For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

SEE ALSO

       emacs(1)

Zile 2.3.20							   November 2010							   ZILE(1)

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