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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andrew Cohen <acohen@ust.hk>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reproducers for recent Emacs security issues
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:25:10 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86edb5jxzt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8734rmmcfg.fsf@ust.hk> (message from Andrew Cohen on Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:30:27 +0800)

> From: Andrew Cohen <acohen@ust.hk>
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:30:27 +0800
> 
> >>>>> "FW" == Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>     FW> It's a feature.  I think it comes the regular expression in
>     FW> mm-uu-type-alist.  Some of the features are quite nice, like
>     FW> diff highlighting.  Others are a bit scary (and not just the
>     FW> org-mode integration).
> 
> I stand corrected---this  still looks quite useful and seems to be
> working as intended. I was thrown off by the documentation which
> indicated it was just for uuencoded and yencoded content. 

Maybe I misunderstand something (I don't use Gnus), but isn't it a
security problem that the presence of such a line in an email message
causes Emacs to download a remote file?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-04-16 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-14  3:23 Reproducers for recent Emacs security issues Sean Whitton
2024-04-14  4:41 ` Max Nikulin
2024-04-15  9:27   ` Sean Whitton
2024-04-15  9:32     ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-15  9:46       ` Sean Whitton
2024-04-15 10:09         ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-15 11:20         ` Max Nikulin
2024-04-15 12:00           ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-15 13:42             ` Andrew Cohen
2024-04-15 18:33             ` Florian Weimer
2024-04-15 23:30               ` Andrew Cohen
2024-04-16  4:35                 ` Max Nikulin
2024-04-16 12:25                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-04-16 13:23                   ` Andrew Cohen
2024-04-17 14:31                     ` Max Nikulin

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