From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C file recoginzed as image file Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:52:47 +0200 Message-ID: <20070114025247.GB2401@kobe.laptop> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168744561 16679 80.91.229.12 (14 Jan 2007 03:16:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:16:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dooglus@gmail.com, c.a.rendle@gmail.com, Reiner Steib , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 14 04:15:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H5vqa-0005eU-4p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:15:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H5vqZ-0006W8-Sf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:15:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H5vqN-0006VZ-Li for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:15:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H5vqL-0006Uw-Bf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:15:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H5vqL-0006Uo-5O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:15:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.1.205.36] (helo=igloo.linux.gr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H5vqJ-00032y-7d; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:15:35 -0500 Original-Received: from kobe.laptop (dialup190.ach.sch.gr [81.186.70.190]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l0E3EMQv011432 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 14 Jan 2007 05:14:38 +0200 Original-Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0E3ECq9002717; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 05:14:14 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Original-Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l0E2qlFN002621; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:52:47 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Original-To: Richard Stallman Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.708, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.49, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:65187 Archived-At: On 2007-01-08 19:01, Richard Stallman wrote: > And in case there's a vulnerability in libpng, he would not > expect to be in danger when opening something.jpg. > > He probably won't expect to be in danger when opening something.png, > because he probably won't know about the vulnerability. > > For most GNU/Linux systems, the vulnerable image libraries will be > replaced by fixed versions via (automatic) online updates soon. > > That is true for many users, but there is a substantial fraction that, > like me, hardly ever updates software. That's very true. There isn't much Emacs can do to protect against problems with potentially buggy versions of the image libraries, though. We can make Emacs *prompt* the user when something looks ``odd'', but how do we define ``odd''?