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From: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA/elpa-admin] Render README.org as ASCII with ox-ascii
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 21:49:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bc9ba82-e32a-291a-96a0-315d814d6943@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s0jztpm.fsf@alphapapa.net>

On 8/29/21 8:01 PM, Adam Porter wrote:
> I would guess that those who have commit access to ELPA are considered
> trusted, and regardless of potentially using Org Export while building
> packages, those committers could already add malicious code that could
> end up being distributed to users until someone noticed and reverted the
> changes.

The scary part is not so much altering a package (or a few packages) with bad code (though that is scary), but having the ability to alter all of them (sure, you could push to all package branches, but that's more easily detected that altering one readme).

> Also, AFAIU, ELPA already runs Makefiles for packages as part of the
> build process, and those can run arbitrary code, which I guess could do
> things like modify other packages, modify the build process or scripts,
> or anything else that the user account the build process runs as could
> do on the server.

Good catch, and indeed given this running org doesn't make things worse.  Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-30  1:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-29 22:52 [ELPA/elpa-admin] Render README.org as ASCII with ox-ascii Adam Porter
2021-08-29 23:28 ` Adam Porter
2021-08-29 23:38 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-08-30  0:01   ` Adam Porter
2021-08-30  1:49     ` Clément Pit-Claudel [this message]
2021-08-30  2:15       ` Adam Porter
2021-08-30  0:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-30  1:29   ` Adam Porter
2021-08-30  2:13   ` [ELPA/elpa-admin] Render README.org as HTML with ox-html Adam Porter
2021-09-03  2:01     ` Adam Porter
2021-09-07  3:31       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-07  8:12         ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-07 10:26         ` Adam Porter
2021-09-10 20:58           ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-12 13:03             ` Adam Porter
2021-09-20  4:29               ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-20  6:41                 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-20 13:40                   ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-09-20 19:57                   ` Adam Porter
2021-09-20 23:26                 ` Adam Porter
2021-10-09 15:08                   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-09 16:39                     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-10-10  3:37                       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-10  3:54                         ` Corwin Brust
2021-10-10 13:27                           ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-10  4:32                         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-10-10 14:50                     ` Adam Porter
2021-10-10 15:30                       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-30 17:49   ` [ELPA/elpa-admin] Render README.org as ASCII with ox-ascii Philip Kaludercic

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