cve-2000-0271
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2000-04-26 04:00
Modified
2024-08-08 05:14
Severity ?
Summary
read-passwd and other Lisp functions in Emacs 20 do not properly clear the history of recently typed keys, which allows an attacker to read unencrypted passwords.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1125Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&date=2000-04-15&msg=tg4s8zioxq.fsf%40mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1125Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&date=2000-04-15&msg=tg4s8zioxq.fsf%40mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
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