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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: "Ludwig, Mark" <ludwig.mark@siemens.com>,
	Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: CVE-2017-14482 - Red Hat Customer Portal
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:46:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkQVSSYsPgKFzhzz7wiz8XAA7cZeh+7xQVvBU4F+7tJSxw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BC5672F8AD4C054BAF167C9801500D1A016B289712@USSLMMBX004.net.plm.eds.com>

Ludwig, Mark <ludwig.mark@siemens.com> schrieb am Di., 26. Sep. 2017 um
05:44 Uhr:

> > From Glenn Morris, Monday, September 25, 2017 4:27 PM
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > > A file whose source you don't trust or are unfamiliar with should
> > > initially be examined with find-file-literally, if your security is
> > > indeed important for you.  That emulates what most other text editors
> > > do when you open a file.
> >
> > Wow. I find this an extraordinary statement. For example, it means
> > that "emacs [-Q] somefile" could eg happily delete your home directory.
> > Please reconsider.
>
> It is an unhappy reality, but this is no different from other sophisticated
> file formats.  Consider the wisdom of "firefox foo.html" where
> you do not know what is in foo.html.  You may /think/ you just want to
> "view" what is in foo.html....
>
>
>
Viewing an HTML document will never run arbitrary code, let alone delete
the user's home directory. Unlike Emacs, browsers have pretty good
sandboxes.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-26 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-21 21:51 CVE-2017-14482 - Red Hat Customer Portal ken
2017-09-21 22:03 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-09-21 23:07   ` ken
2017-09-22  7:37     ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-22  7:48       ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-22 20:12         ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-22 22:14           ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-24  2:08             ` Mario Castelán Castro
     [not found]             ` <mailman.1063.1506218941.14750.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-09-24  6:47               ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-24 13:38                 ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-24 14:42                   ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-09-24 14:54                     ` tomas
2017-09-26 18:57                       ` Narendra Joshi
2017-09-24 23:06                     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-25 21:23                       ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-25 21:49                         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-26  1:43                           ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-26  2:17                             ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-25 21:11                     ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-25 23:58                       ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-09-26 14:46                         ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-26 23:31                           ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-09-29 20:21                             ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-29 12:43                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 14:59                             ` dekkzz78
2017-09-29 16:51                               ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-09-29 17:20                                 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-29 18:27                                   ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-09-29 19:45                                     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-29 20:06                                       ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-09-29 23:24                                         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-29 18:03                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-24 23:07                   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-23 10:05           ` Charles A. Roelli
2017-09-23 12:53             ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-09-23 13:12               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-23 17:18                 ` Glenn Morris
2017-09-23 17:34                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-23 20:50                     ` Yuri Khan
2017-09-24  2:53                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-24  7:13                         ` Philipp Stephani
2017-09-24 18:29                           ` Robert Thorpe
2017-09-29  8:17                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 20:28                             ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-29 23:28                               ` Emanuel Berg
2017-10-03  0:52                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-03  1:04                                   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-29  7:11                           ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                         ` <mailman.1068.1506237251.14750.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-09-24  7:48                           ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-25 21:26                         ` Glenn Morris
2017-09-25 22:02                           ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-25 22:08                           ` Ludwig, Mark
2017-09-26  5:50                             ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-26 13:40                               ` Ludwig, Mark
2017-09-26 17:46                             ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2017-09-26 19:00                               ` Ludwig, Mark
2017-09-29 13:23                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29  9:48                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-26 18:44                   ` Narendra Joshi
2017-09-26 18:51                     ` Philipp Stephani
     [not found]           ` <mailman.988.1506161159.14750.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-09-24  6:31             ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-22 16:40       ` ken
2017-09-22 19:07         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-23 20:27     ` Bob Proulx
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1053.1506198486.14750.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-09-24  6:38       ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-24 17:17         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2017-09-24 22:38           ` Emanuel Berg
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2017-09-27 10:51 Richard Melville

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