From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: stefan@marxist.se, 19565@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19565: Emacs vulnerable to endless-data attack (minor)
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 19:47:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wodfw5dx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhibyzh8.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Tue, 08 Oct 2019 18:27:15 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: stefan@marxist.se, 19565@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 18:27:15 +0200
>
> 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.
Yes, I agree. So maybe make it kick in once the process buffer is
large enough? And even here we will need to consider, say, shell and
term.el buffers, which could grow quite large.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-08 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-11 11:12 bug#19565: Emacs vulnerable to endless-data attack (minor) Kelly Dean
2015-01-11 18:33 ` Richard Stallman
2015-01-11 21:18 ` Kelly Dean
2019-10-06 3:13 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-06 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-07 1:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-07 12:50 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-07 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-08 16:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-08 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-10-08 16:50 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-08 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-08 17:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-08 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
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