GNU bug report logs - #28350
CVE-2017-14482: enriched.el code execution

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: charles <at> aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli)

Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 19:26:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: security

Found in versions 25.1, 23.1, 21.4, 23.2, 21.2, 22.3, 24.3, 21.1, 21.3, 24.1, 24.5, 25.2, 24.2, 23.4, 22.1, 23.3, 24.4, 22.2

Fixed in version 25.3

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: charles <at> aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 28350 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28350: enriched.el code execution
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:44:19 +0200

> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 18:18:01 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Anyway, I think I have a better idea for how to fix this on master.
> And I'm very sorry that this idea didn't come to me earlier, before
> you invested all these efforts in your patch.  (I'm also surprised
> that no one here had beaten me up to this idea.)
> 
> Here's the idea: we introduce a new form of a display property:
> 
>   ('disable-eval SPEC)
> 
> where SPEC is anything supported in a display property.

Thanks for suggesting this; it's much cleaner than sanitizing the
display specification from Lisp.  Looks good to me.
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