GNU bug report logs - #19565
Emacs vulnerable to endless-data attack (minor)

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Message #11 received at 19565 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kelly Dean <kelly <at> prtime.org>
To: 19565 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs vulnerable to endless-data attack (minor)
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 21:18:29 +0000

If Emacs gets an auto-updater, or even an auto-checker for updates, like some common operating systems and web browsers have, then this bug would become an actual problem, enabling denial-of-service attacks. Since Emacs is an OS, and now a web browser too, it might get an auto-updater or auto-checker.

Even so, it would only enable DOS attacks, nothing more.

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