From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#17467: 24.3; locate-library returning spurious path Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 17:19:54 -0400 Message-ID: <3feh00ko79.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1399843215 24773 80.91.229.3 (11 May 2014 21:20:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 21:20:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 17467@debbugs.gnu.org To: Alex Kosorukoff Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 11 23:20:08 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WjbAF-00013N-WC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 23:20:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34390 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WjbAF-0005aT-Dn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 17:20:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59507) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WjbAC-0005XQ-1M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 17:20:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WjbAA-0001NT-Ri for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 17:20:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:42401) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WjbAA-0001N6-P3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 17:20:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WjbAA-0000gW-Ax for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 17:20:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 21:20:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 17467 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 17467-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B17467.13998431992620 (code B ref 17467); Sun, 11 May 2014 21:20:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 17467) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 May 2014 21:19:59 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59752 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WjbA6-0000gB-VF for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 17:19:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:51974 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WjbA4-0000g2-2l for 17467@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 17:19:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WjbA2-0007oe-UE; Sun, 11 May 2014 17:19:54 -0400 X-Spook: JUWTF AFSPC terrorism anarchy asset Mafia Mahmoud X-Ran: rDDsw({HneP*<&ioG4S`[p.}X.vJq=69AHUBpjLzN0@X*n#{U9N=m>qABe*t5Rl[sNPbsY X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Alex Kosorukoff's message of "Sun, 11 May 2014 13:45:12 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:88938 Archived-At: Alex Kosorukoff wrote: > It can cause user inconvenience or pose a security/privacy issue > because a random file named "tramp" or "tramp.gz" placed in some > directory of the load-path can be loaded instead of the standard > library without user knowledge. This argument does not fly, because if someone can write a "tramp" file to a directory in your load-path, they can just as easily write "tramp.el". Random files should not be being written to your load-path, and you should not be adding inappropriate directories to that path. Your immediate problem was having ~/.emacs.d in load-path.