From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: qhong@mit.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Access control in Emacs?
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:11:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1mQbFY-00018j-L7@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr1drfdbo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:49:40 -0400)
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> > I’m adding more powerful features to crdt.el including buffer local variable
> > synchronizations and arbitrary remote command/function call,
> Given the way Emacs is designed/structured this is a recipe for big
> gaping security holes. It can be OK to allow such things for *very*
> specific cases (a few specific well understood variables), but even such
> a "whitelist" is a problem because it requires careful and
> long term maintenance.
This is a crucial issue, so we should keep it in mind if we change
anything that affects the handling of buffer-local variables.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-15 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-14 12:49 Access control in Emacs? Qiantan Hong
2021-09-14 14:09 ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-14 14:28 ` dick
2021-09-14 15:05 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-09-14 15:52 ` dick
2021-09-14 16:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-14 14:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-15 20:11 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-09-15 20:21 ` Robin Tarsiger
2021-09-14 18:13 ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
2021-09-14 19:59 ` tomas
2021-09-15 23:16 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-09-16 2:16 ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
2021-09-18 0:29 ` Richard Stallman
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