From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, 63063@debbugs.gnu.org, fuo@fuo.fi
Subject: bug#63063: CVE-2021-36699 report
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2023 21:28:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1prTxj-0004v1-By@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834jp4w57b.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 25 Apr 2023 14:51:04 +0300)
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> > In either case, this is not a security vulnerability: if you can make
> > the user load malformed dump files, you can make him load nefarious
> > executables as well.
> That's not necessarily true. The malformed pdumper file could be
> placed where Emacs usually finds it. IOW, the perpetrator could
> overwrite the pdumper file that EMacs loads when it starts.
If the pdumper file is writable by you, you could mess it up in all
sorts of ways. You wouldn't need this feature -- you could do it with
truncate, or cat. So I think it is incorrect to describe this feature
as being a security problem.
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2023-04-24 21:27 ` CVE-2021-36699 report fuomag9
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