Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Andreas Schwab]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> However, if the overlong sequence came from the network, and Emacs
> propagates it unchanged to internal subsystems[*] (e.g. via command-line
> arguments to subprocesses), that's not good.  It exposes another program
> to invalid input -- a program that might not be designed for exposure to
> possible attacks via overlong encodings.

At least it doesn't make it worse (it is unchanged from the situation if
you remove Emacs as a filter).

Andreas.

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