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From: Kelly Dean <kelly@prtime.org>
To: 19565@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19565: Emacs vulnerable to endless-data attack (minor)
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 21:18:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dXJcMhaCvuo4JeWptrVIHP2ruS6z4KudXFZv9NCYUHO@local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A95hYv6eiwhN4ZlplHCcmBnPjnFHgrKiNiO1xKjhUqg@local>

If Emacs gets an auto-updater, or even an auto-checker for updates, like some common operating systems and web browsers have, then this bug would become an actual problem, enabling denial-of-service attacks. Since Emacs is an OS, and now a web browser too, it might get an auto-updater or auto-checker.

Even so, it would only enable DOS attacks, nothing more.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-11 21:18 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 [this message]
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
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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