Emacs dependencies vs. security

[Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>]

>>>>> Stephen J Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
>>>>> Richard Stallman writes:

 >>> (I agree with you that Emacs that has an attack surface that
 >>> amounts to the whole world, and practically, that securing it is
 >>> too hard to think about succeeding, but that's not a popular view
 >>> on this list.  And it's just theory.)

 >> We have done substantial work to make Emacs secure against just
 >> visiting a malicious file.

 > Yes.  But Emacs nowadays depends on a large number of external
 > libraries, many of which are known to have had security flaws.

	Fortunately, most (if not all) of these libraries are entirely
	optional.  FWIW, the build I use for Emacs development is linked
	against GnuTLS, libxml, the compression libraries (Libz,
	Liblzma), and what seems to be their respective dependencies
	(Glib, libgcrypt, libtasn1, etc.)

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