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Re: Risky local variable mechanism


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Risky local variable mechanism
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:00:58 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> Maybe "string and integer custom vars" are all safe, I don't know.
> No, sendmail-program is not safe, nor is max-eval-lisp-depth.

Indeed, names of external programs need to be ruled out.

OTOH I think the only danger with max-eval-lisp-depth is DoS, which I'd
rather ignore because it's a tremendously harder problem to solve than
direct security holes.


        Stefan




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