This vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to overwrite files with the privileges of the user running emacs.

Debian Security Advisory DSA 500-1                     This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Matt Zimmerman
May 1st, 2004                            http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : flim
Vulnerability  : insecure temporary file
Problem-Type   : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids        : CAN-2004-0422

Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered a vulnerability in flim, an emacs library
for working with internet messages, where temporary files were created
without taking appropriate precautions.  This vulnerability could
potentially be exploited by a local user to overwrite files with the
privileges of the user running emacs.  the 'chroot' option.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 1.14.3-9woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your flim package.

Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
        will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
        will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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  Source archives:

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flim/flim_1.14.3-9woody1.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      576 e355dde8fc5dfb1b6b86504ad98ecb3f
     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flim/flim_1.14.3-9woody1.diff.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:     8044 71ee1b83fab4c323625b1dbd34a84497
     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flim/flim_1.14.3.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:   165844 5931a530506e944f0605aeb022b5b97c

  Architecture independent components:

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flim/flim_1.14.3-9woody1_all.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   156874 525f828cc8022e80601cb5c67d10b482

  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next revision.

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