From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Wilfred Hughes <me@wilfred.me.uk>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Avoiding arbitrary code execution with macroexpansion
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 13:52:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3767608a-90f8-8606-8cb2-07acfe9b509b@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFXAjY5f4YfHAtZur1RAqH34UbYU56_t6t2Er0YEh1Sb7-W=hg@mail.gmail.com>
Wilfred Hughes wrote:
> This means that I can get arbitrary code execution by you opening and
> calling code completion a maliciously crafted elisp file!
>
> Is this a security bug in Emacs?
Sounds like it. I suggest constructing a complete, self-contained and hopefully
easy way to reproduce the problem with emacs -Q, and sending it in a bug report
to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-16 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-15 21:52 Avoiding arbitrary code execution with macroexpansion Wilfred Hughes
2018-08-16 20:52 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-08-20 3:04 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-22 0:15 ` Wilfred Hughes
2018-08-22 23:57 ` Richard Stallman
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