GNU bug report logs - #33560
27.0.50; 6.4 GB of RAM

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Packages: emacs, gnus;

Reported by: Uwe Brauer <oub <at> mat.ucm.es>

Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 08:56:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Merged with 33561

Found in version 5.13

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: oub <at> mat.ucm.es, 33560 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33560: closed (Re: bug#33560: 27.0.50; 6.4 GB of RAM)
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 20:04:01 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: Uwe Brauer <oub <at> mat.ucm.es>,  33560 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 12:37:01 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > I think Gnus does invoke ImageMagick, even if it doesn't display the
> > image, as part of creating the button. 
> 
> If that is the default behaviour, it sounds like a security issue.

I'm not sure why that is a security issue, but what I had in mind was
the calculation of the image size.
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