From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: David Bremner <bremner-dated-1252800134.2fccb3@pivot.cs.unb.ca>,
4291@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4291: 23.1; doc-view-mode temporary directory vulnerable to denial of service
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:44:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7kzkkj897u.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y603jiz0.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:18:43 +0200")
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>> IIRC /tmp/docview$uid is predictable because doc-view tries to reuse
>> previouly-rendered pages. I'm not convinced this is really a good
>> feature, but obviously the author thought it was important, so I'd
>> rather not drop it without a discussion.
>
> It could just stash the directory name in a variable, and use the normal
> `make-temp-file' to create the directory, couldn't it?
I think the idea referred to above is to potentially re-use pages
converted by a previous Emacs instance (which seems like a bad feature
to me too).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-12 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-30 0:02 bug#4291: 23.1; doc-view-mode temporary directory vulnerable to denial of service David Bremner
2009-08-31 1:42 ` Glenn Morris
2009-08-31 14:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 21:15 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-12 21:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-12 21:44 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2011-07-12 21:46 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-12 22:16 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-12 22:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-16 19:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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