Re: Percent sign in message

[David Kastrup]

"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