From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Simon Josefsson <simon@yubico.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: smtpmail.el security flaw in selecting authentication mechanism
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:27:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvab8027ks.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Lez9h-0008QT-ER@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:01:33 -0500")
> I am pretty sure we don't plan to make another release of Emacs 22.
> Do you think we should make one just on account of this?
No, it's not a serious security flaw: it still only uses one of the
protocols that we accept to use. It just might choose a less
desirable one.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-04 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-03 16:30 smtpmail.el security flaw in selecting authentication mechanism Simon Josefsson
2009-03-03 19:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-04 22:01 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-03-04 22:12 ` Simon Josefsson
2009-03-04 23:27 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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