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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 30329@debbugs.gnu.org, Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
Subject: [bug#30329] [PATCH] gnu: emacs: Build with xwidgets support.
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 16:28:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fu6e5e84.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180205215839.GA17317@jasmine.lan> (Leo Famulari's message of "Mon, 5 Feb 2018 16:58:39 -0500")

Hello,

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 05:48:12AM +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> This patch adds xwidgets support to Emcas. So Emacs can now display GTK
>> widgets. In particular, it can display webpages using webkitgtk.
>> 
>> Also, I use webkitgtk-2.4 instead of webkitgtk, because xwidgets
>> requires libwebkitgtk-3.0 instead of libwebkitgtk-4.0 to
>> build.
>
> Webkitgtk is very actively researched and exploited for security
> problems. If this use of webkitgtk-2.4 would ever handle untrusted
> input, it's not very safe. I don't use Emacs so I'm not sure what the
> use case is for webkitgtk.
>
> For examples, you can check the security advisories published by the
> Webkitgtk team:
>
> https://webkitgtk.org/news.html
>
> They publish an advisory after every release, and there are always
> several fixed bugs allowing code execution by whoever supplies the input
> (typically from a remote web server).

That’s indeed a bit of a problem.  Would be nice if it could use the
latest webkitgtk series.

Given that and the increase in closure size, I would prefer making it a
separate “emacs-xwidgets” package.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-06 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-02 21:48 [bug#30329] [PATCH] gnu: emacs: Build with xwidgets support Alex Vong
2018-02-05 21:58 ` Leo Famulari
2018-02-06 15:28   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-02-08  1:04     ` Alex Vong
2018-02-08  2:32       ` Leo Famulari
2018-06-09  5:25       ` Chris Marusich
2018-06-21 12:05         ` bug#30329: " Ricardo Wurmus

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