From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Geralt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: view-lossage and passwords Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:33:24 +0100 Message-ID: References: <245949e5-e510-452d-a485-3da79f3b1ad5@k5g2000pra.googlegroups.com> <4B894617.5000408@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267385650 19227 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2010 19:34:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:34:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= , Lennart Borgman , "mandar.mitra" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 28 20:34:02 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nlott-0002vp-C0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:34:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55092 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nlots-00005J-NP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:34:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NlotU-00005E-AU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:33:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58394 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NlotT-000056-LF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:33:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NlotS-0000fw-W1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:33:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f222.google.com ([209.85.220.222]:57313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NlotS-0000fo-QZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:33:34 -0500 Original-Received: by fxm22 with SMTP id 22so1817640fxm.26 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:33:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=DIGLeEKq9lHWl+TBnWOQwDqy7F3B0b6CY7hal7gWMew=; b=DwzkK0EbJB7ZdIQamXTkdcCqpc/0241QnFMcjPzsK0HUGg34fQwy6ttGAkSLOy4ALn qmIuvSRx7YNehvrZ/33GeXkgjqBms8nnmX40NGYVkYaKVrCe0uuyxlojggjD2t40mDh5 tgKRJPGormOKNA5xS87SKXTeN5jrpum/0L/L0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=hjVwBtSX1C/PFZ0xRZX7dZy4K84tP7tcVZqHuxtHjTaPnd7nA1yGpRfioSet6z/nvN kXAYgyTDl73ITrVjZsfR5ABM3hBXXJr2tJTwPG8twVTduqfXyB3sqcXv8BzKmLn8hihh hpry9W2aBwL4Kb3Ip8pjBSoGHGDF0TBdZVn2Y= Original-Received: by 10.239.148.137 with SMTP id f9mr333121hbb.132.1267385604462; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:33:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B894617.5000408@easy-emacs.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72237 Archived-At: Hi, I just used Emacs built-in bug-reporting facility (M-x report-emacs-bug RET) and among some other information this includes the lossage, so if passwords are included in the lossage this is definitely a security bug. I just tried that with Emacs 23.1.1 and I can't confirm that bug, it looks like the lossage is flushed after the password prompt finishes. Geralt.