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From: "Stuart D. Herring" <herring@lanl.gov>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Percent sign in message
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:39:31 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33680.128.165.123.18.1158694771.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85irjt9juq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

> I'd want to mention that format string vulnerabilities are a common
> attack vector for viruses.  They will not likely be exploitable in
> Elisp, but it shows that they are not rare among programmers (indeed,
> one such case prompted the release of Emacs 21.4), and could cause
> weird effects.

This is off-topic, but what was the case that prompted 21.4?  I've never
seen it described.

Thanks,
Davis

-- 
This product is sold by volume, not by mass.  If it appears too dense or
too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during
shipping.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-19 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-11  6:15 Percent sign in message Whitfield Diffie
2006-09-11  6:38 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-09-11  6:57   ` Whitfield Diffie
2006-09-11  7:18     ` David Kastrup
2006-09-11  8:26       ` Kim F. Storm
2006-09-11 14:07         ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-11 19:57           ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-11 21:00             ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-11 21:03               ` David Kastrup
2006-09-11 22:05                 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-11 22:13                   ` David Kastrup
2006-09-12  3:20                     ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-12 15:27               ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-12 15:37                 ` David Kastrup
2006-09-19 19:39                   ` Stuart D. Herring [this message]
2006-09-19 21:49                     ` David Kastrup

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