From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19565: Emacs vulnerable to endless-data attack (minor) Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 20:22:02 +0300 Message-ID: <83tv8jw3t1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83a7ad3hlf.fsf@gnu.org> <874l0le314.fsf@gnus.org> <831rvo1qlk.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhibyzh8.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="47852"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 19565@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 08 19:43:02 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iHtVm-000CKp-Jn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Oct 2019 19:43:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59392 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iHtVi-00049e-PX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:43:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49876) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iHtCU-0003nJ-Bg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:23:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iHtCS-0005ov-3m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:23:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:42606) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iHtCQ-0005oM-Hi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:23:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iHtCQ-0003tC-9k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:23:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 17:23:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19565 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: security Original-Received: via spool by 19565-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19565.157055533414870 (code B ref 19565); Tue, 08 Oct 2019 17:23:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19565) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Oct 2019 17:22:14 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51427 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iHtBd-0003rm-LT for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:22:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40699) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iHtBc-0003rZ-Pg for 19565@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:22:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47247) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iHtBV-0004SY-Q9; Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:22:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2473 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iHtBU-0000tA-Uk; Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:22:05 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 8 Oct 2019 18:50:22 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:168674 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 18:50:22 +0200 > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , 19565@debbugs.gnu.org > > Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > > > So bytes/sec, as you suggest, may be the best heuristic. But it should > > only kick in after having received a large number of bytes, probably. > > Maybe this is a stupid question, but what if I'm on a slow connection? Please define "slow" in terms of bytes/sec.