From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:41:39 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <87wp55t0un.fsf@petton.fr> <87tw07kikp.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505235046 2192 195.159.176.226 (12 Sep 2017 16:50:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 16:50:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Roland Winkler Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 12 18:50:42 2017 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 1droO4-0007VP-RD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:50:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37415 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1droOC-0008OH-0s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:50:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53190) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1droFy-0001Kv-Ri for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:41:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1droFv-0000Xt-IG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:41:50 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:48050) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1droFv-0000Wi-3b; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AAB416096F; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:41:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id sALJgAy47aCm; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:41:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A6C4160CEE; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:41:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id p09Zy8lw3SaP; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:41:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E5539160078; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:41:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87tw07kikp.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:218134 Archived-At: On 09/12/2017 09:06 AM, Roland Winkler wrote: > Is it fair to say that putting the above lines of code in > ~/.emacs fully protects the user from the vulnerability? Yes, if they avoid options like -Q that bypass ~/.emacs. > If yes, we may > want to advertise these lines of code more broadly. What do you suggest? We sent email to info-gnu. It's been publicized on Reddit, OpenNET (in Russian), Linux-Magazin (in German), and so forth.