From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 44018@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44018: Don't consider play-sound-file to be a 'safe' function
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 17:51:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <034E6EE8-9856-4D84-A487-79BC69AFF9E3@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmkD4eboBf-8XOoDDa+cPbrGvisEmJv-0hLMAggNu=HJTw@mail.gmail.com>
reopen 44018
stop
[Stefan, I think you accidentally closed the bug when replying to 44018-done@debbugs.gnu.org. I would probably have made the same mistake!]
26 okt. 2020 kl. 17.32 skrev Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>:
> FWIW, I agree with this change. There have been many vulnerabilities
> in this area, for example in the Linux kernel drivers. Who knows what
> else is out there.
Yes, and some of us have dealt with these things for decades.
My fav audio bug in Linux is the famous gstreamer NES emu exploit [1], which is a good example of what I tried to explain about attack surfaces and unknown dangers.
[1] https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2016/11/0day-exploit-compromising-linux-desktop.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-26 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-15 16:55 bug#44018: Don't consider play-sound-file to be a 'safe' function Mattias Engdegård
2020-10-15 17:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-15 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-15 19:01 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-10-15 19:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-16 9:45 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-10-26 11:51 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-10-26 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-26 16:19 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-10-26 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-26 18:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-26 16:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-26 16:51 ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
2020-10-16 5:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-16 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-26 17:05 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-10-26 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-26 17:38 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-10-26 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-26 20:36 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-10-31 8:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-31 13:33 ` Mattias Engdegård
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