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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: rcopley <at> gmail.com, 22202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, johnw <at> gnu.org, deng <at> randomsample.de
Subject: bug#22202: 24.5; SECURITY ISSUE -- Emacs Server vulnerable to random number generator attack on Windows systems
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:44:56 +0200

> Cc: 22202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rcopley <at> gmail.com, deng <at> randomsample.de
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 09:38:23 -0800
> 
> This is just a minor issue, one that has been blown all out of
> proportion.

This is unfair: if this minor issue was important enough for you to
make those changes, then objecting to them cannot be considered
"blowing it all out of proportion".
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