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bug#40913: 24.5; Crash on open of file
From: |
Jason Gibson |
Subject: |
bug#40913: 24.5; Crash on open of file |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 09:52:31 -0700 |
>> From: Jason Gibson <jgibson@perforce.com>
>> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:31:15 -0700
>>
>> Attached is a file that crashes Emacs on find-file (find-file-literally
>> does not crash). E.g.:
>>
>> tar xf foo8.tar
>> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 emacs -Q -nw --eval '(find-file "foo8")'
>> *poof*
>
> Thanks. This is a very old bug, now fixed on the emacs-27 branch. If
> you can build that branch, please see that the crash is gone now.
The change works for me as well.
Since this would seem to be a good vector for remote buffer overflow, it
might make sense to backport this to prior releases.
Thanks for the quick fix.
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