From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Nicolas Martyanoff <nicolas@n16f.net>
Cc: fuomag9 <fuo@fuo.fi>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: CVE-2021-36699 report
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:21:27 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zg6wctqg.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o7nc77tt.fsf@valhala.localdomain> (Nicolas Martyanoff's message of "Tue, 25 Apr 2023 09:13:34 +0200")
Nicolas Martyanoff <nicolas@n16f.net> writes:
> Is there a reason why Emacs does not validate dump files while reading
> them as any other program with any other data format? Nothing good ever
> comes from buffer overflows.
Is there any reason Unix does not verify that machine code is free of
bugs before loading an a.out into memory?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-25 7:21 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <01070187b503303f-1657dcaa-4f53-47da-9679-2f68a682d447-000000@eu-central-1.amazonses.com>
[not found] ` <bcb96279c47143f403f588dc3f020725029137bd.camel@josefsson.org>
2023-04-24 21:27 ` CVE-2021-36699 report fuomag9
2023-04-25 5:51 ` Po Lu
2023-04-25 7:13 ` Nicolas Martyanoff
2023-04-25 7:21 ` Po Lu [this message]
2023-04-25 6:37 ` tomas
2023-04-25 7:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-25 7:40 ` Yuri Khan
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