From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Percent sign in message
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:49:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85slinbk7u.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33680.128.165.123.18.1158694771.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (Stuart D. Herring's message of "Tue\, 19 Sep 2006 12\:39\:31 -0700 \(PDT\)")
"Stuart D. Herring" <herring@lanl.gov> writes:
>> I'd want to mention that format string vulnerabilities are a common
>> attack vector for viruses. They will not likely be exploitable in
>> Elisp, but it shows that they are not rare among programmers (indeed,
>> one such case prompted the release of Emacs 21.4), and could cause
>> weird effects.
>
> This is off-topic, but what was the case that prompted 21.4? I've never
> seen it described.
Well, the diff is short enough. A format string vulnerability in the
movemail executable.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-19 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-11 6:15 Percent sign in message Whitfield Diffie
2006-09-11 6:38 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-09-11 6:57 ` Whitfield Diffie
2006-09-11 7:18 ` David Kastrup
2006-09-11 8:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-09-11 14:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-11 19:57 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-11 21:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-11 21:03 ` David Kastrup
2006-09-11 22:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-11 22:13 ` David Kastrup
2006-09-12 3:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-12 15:27 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-12 15:37 ` David Kastrup
2006-09-19 19:39 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-09-19 21:49 ` David Kastrup [this message]
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