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Re: Percent sign in message
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Percent sign in message |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:49:25 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Stuart D. Herring" <address@hidden> writes:
>> I'd want to mention that format string vulnerabilities are a common
>> attack vector for viruses. They will not likely be exploitable in
>> Elisp, but it shows that they are not rare among programmers (indeed,
>> one such case prompted the release of Emacs 21.4), and could cause
>> weird effects.
>
> This is off-topic, but what was the case that prompted 21.4? I've never
> seen it described.
Well, the diff is short enough. A format string vulnerability in the
movemail executable.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: Percent sign in message, (continued)
- Re: Percent sign in message, Stefan Monnier, 2006/09/11
- Re: Percent sign in message, Richard Stallman, 2006/09/11
- Re: Percent sign in message, Stefan Monnier, 2006/09/11
- Re: Percent sign in message, David Kastrup, 2006/09/11
- Re: Percent sign in message, Stefan Monnier, 2006/09/11
- Re: Percent sign in message, David Kastrup, 2006/09/11
- Re: Percent sign in message, Stefan Monnier, 2006/09/11
- Re: Percent sign in message, Richard Stallman, 2006/09/12
- Re: Percent sign in message, David Kastrup, 2006/09/12
- Re: Percent sign in message, Stuart D. Herring, 2006/09/19
- Re: Percent sign in message,
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