From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Security advisory?
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:46:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6bejk3wwcq.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fy4j7n3q.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:25:45 -0400")
Chong Yidong wrote:
> http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471992/30/0/threaded
>
> Does anyone know what the heck this is about?
It links to a debian bug report, which is more informative:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408929
I think they call it a "denial of service" because it occurred in the
VM mail reader (not part of Emacs, of course), when viewing a spam
mail with a malformed image. So someone could email you an image that
would crash Emacs. I don't know if gnus, rmail, or mh-e automatically
display images; I suspect not.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-22 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-22 20:25 Security advisory? Chong Yidong
2007-06-22 20:46 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2007-06-23 16:44 ` Automatic display of images (was: Security advisory?) Reiner Steib
2007-06-22 22:17 ` Security advisory? Thien-Thi Nguyen
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