From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: eval and security
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 19:40:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9563de23-c531-a487-8f4e-924284d255b4@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161024123151.GB10964@tuxteam.de>
On 24.10.2016 14:31, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 02:20:44PM +0200, Andreas Röhler wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> remember a saying like "avoid calls like (eval 'my-symbol) in
>> lisp-code" as related to security issues.
>>
>> Is there some reading to learn more? Maybe I'm mistaking something?
> Perhaps because a randomly downloaded package can redefine 'my-symbol
> to be something evil?
Yes, that would be the problem. However, the way Emacs works, any symbol
might be replaced by such a package, right?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-24 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-24 12:20 eval and security Andreas Röhler
2016-10-24 12:31 ` tomas
2016-10-24 17:40 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2016-10-24 18:50 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-10-25 7:34 ` Andreas Röhler
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