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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Nicolas Martyanoff <nicolas@n16f.net>
Cc: fuomag9 <fuo@fuo.fi>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: CVE-2021-36699 report
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:21:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zg6wctqg.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o7nc77tt.fsf@valhala.localdomain> (Nicolas Martyanoff's message of "Tue, 25 Apr 2023 09:13:34 +0200")

Nicolas Martyanoff <nicolas@n16f.net> writes:

> Is there a reason why Emacs does not validate dump files while reading
> them as any other program with any other data format? Nothing good ever
> comes from buffer overflows.

Is there any reason Unix does not verify that machine code is free of
bugs before loading an a.out into memory?



  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-25  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <01070187b503303f-1657dcaa-4f53-47da-9679-2f68a682d447-000000@eu-central-1.amazonses.com>
     [not found]   ` <bcb96279c47143f403f588dc3f020725029137bd.camel@josefsson.org>
2023-04-24 21:27     ` CVE-2021-36699 report fuomag9
2023-04-25  5:51       ` Po Lu
2023-04-25  7:13         ` Nicolas Martyanoff
2023-04-25  7:21           ` Po Lu [this message]
2023-04-25  7:53             ` bug#63063: " Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-25  7:53           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-25  6:37       ` tomas
2023-04-25  7:11         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-25  7:14       ` bug#63063: " Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-25  7:24         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-25  7:55           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-25  8:38             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-25  9:09               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-25 10:55                 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-25 11:51                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-25 12:26                     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-25 12:47                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-25 12:59                         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-25 13:06                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-25 13:18                             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-25 15:54                               ` lux
2023-04-25 16:01                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-25 16:17                                   ` Robert Pluim
2023-04-25 16:37                                     ` lux
2023-04-26  1:28                     ` Richard Stallman
2023-04-25  8:45         ` fuomag9 via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-25  7:40       ` Yuri Khan
2023-04-25  7:57         ` bug#63063: " Eli Zaretskii

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