From: Jason Gibson <jgibson@perforce.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 40913-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40913: 24.5; Crash on open of file
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:40:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftcnh5k8.fsf@perforce.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83v9lj1pms.fsf@gnu.org>
>> Since this would seem to be a good vector for remote buffer overflow, it
>> might make sense to backport this to prior releases.
>
> There's no practical way for us to do so, since we do not intend to
> put out any new releases of Emacs before 27. Emacs 27.1 will be
> released soon, and this problem will be fixed there.
>
> It is also worth noting that the use case where this bug can rear its
> ugly head is quite rare. Most sequences of composed characters are
> very short, and the way we allocate the buffers for them always
> allocates more than strictly needed, which is why this bug, although
> blatant, went unnoticed for a very long time. You just happened to
> hit a file which (being in fact just a stream of binary bytes) looked
> to Emacs as a long sequence of characters all of which should be
> composed, and that sequence overflowed the allocated buffer by many
> hundreds of bytes, thus triggering memory corruption.
Sounds good, thanks for the explanations.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-27 21:31 bug#40913: 24.5; Crash on open of file Jason Gibson
2020-04-28 9:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-28 16:52 ` Jason Gibson
2020-04-28 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-28 17:40 ` Jason Gibson [this message]
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