From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Avoiding arbitrary code execution with macroexpansion Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:57:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534982191 7064 195.159.176.226 (22 Aug 2018 23:56:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 23:56:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Wilfred Hughes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 23 01:56:27 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fsczC-0001gd-Hy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 01:56:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33000 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsd1H-0001xI-I6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:58:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52660) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsd0h-0001xA-Ss for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:58:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsd0h-0004cX-6r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:57:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47134) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsd0d-0004Yh-9J; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:57:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fsd0d-00070U-1n; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:57:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Wilfred Hughes on Wed, 22 Aug 2018 01:15:41 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228834 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Perhaps we need a global variable to make it an error to call any built-in functions that do evaluation. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)