From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9874: Fixes for several integer overflow and width issues Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:14:51 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4EA9756B.3060204@cs.ucla.edu> References: <4EA7BBE9.4020107@cs.ucla.edu> <4EA8FB27.7090700@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319728532 31622 80.91.229.12 (27 Oct 2011 15:15:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:15:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9874@debbugs.gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 27 17:15:25 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJRft-0008VQ-Sm for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:15:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34244 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJRft-0005Z5-DZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:15:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52598) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJRfm-0005Z0-Bk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:15:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJRfl-0003a0-Ev for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:15:14 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:41149) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJRfl-0003Zv-Av for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:15:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJRhV-0002Cd-Pf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:17:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:17:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9874 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: pending patch Original-Received: via spool by 9874-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9874.13197286178455 (code B ref 9874); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:17:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9874) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Oct 2011 15:16:57 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJRhQ-0002CI-W8 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJRhM-0002C4-Ht for 9874@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:16:55 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CE83A60003; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:14:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id picg+OBw3Yqi; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:14:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 581F939E8007; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:14:56 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110927 Thunderbird/7.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:17:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:53210 Archived-At: On 10/27/11 01:28, Andreas Schwab wrote: > if you want to get a very big one you have to have > odles of open files already Yes, that's the scenario. The invoker of Emacs could open oodles of file descriptors, causing Emacs to obtain a high file-descriptor number whenever it opens a file, creates a pipe, etc. Admittedly unlikely, but easy to defend against.