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Re: Security advisory?
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Glenn Morris |
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Re: Security advisory? |
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Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:46:45 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Chong Yidong wrote:
> http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471992/30/0/threaded
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> Does anyone know what the heck this is about?
It links to a debian bug report, which is more informative:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408929
I think they call it a "denial of service" because it occurred in the
VM mail reader (not part of Emacs, of course), when viewing a spam
mail with a malformed image. So someone could email you an image that
would crash Emacs. I don't know if gnus, rmail, or mh-e automatically
display images; I suspect not.