GNU bug report logs - #22202
24.5; SECURITY ISSUE -- Emacs Server vulnerable to random number generator attack on Windows systems

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Demetri Obenour <demetriobenour <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:09:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: security

Found in version 24.5

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #100 received at 22202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,
 Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: bug#22202: 24.5; SECURITY ISSUE -- Emacs Server vulnerable to
 random number generator attack on Windows systems
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:20:26 +0000
On 18 January 2016 at 16:05, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:40:05 +0000
>> Cc: 22202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
>>       Demetri Obenour <demetriobenour <at> gmail.com>, David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>,
>>       Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
>>
>> I can't build from the current sources; the error is:
>>
>>   CCLD     temacs.exe
>> sysdep.o: In function `init_random':
>> C:/emacs/repo/emacs/src/sysdep.c:2108: undefined reference to `gnutls_rnd'
>> C:/emacs/repo/emacs/src/sysdep.c:2108:(.text+0xf38): relocation
>> truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC32 against undefined symbol `gnutls_rnd'
>> collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> Please try again.

Fixed, thanks.




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