GNU bug report logs - #36879
26.2; OSC 52 paste in term/xterm.el not working

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: daniel <at> ekloef.se (Daniel Eklöf)

Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:17:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 26.2

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Daniel Eklöf <daniel <at> ekloef.se>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <phst <at> google.com>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 36879 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36879: 26.2; OSC 52 paste in term/xterm.el not working
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 12:32:47 +0200

> It's not a problem in Emacs, but by enabling OSC 52 in your 
> terminal, an adversary might arrange for a crafted string to be 
> sent to it which would surreptitiously inject malicious data 
> into the clipboard, or extract secrets from it. The OSC 52 reply 
> itself could cause damage under some circumstances, or the 
> attacker could just hope for the victim to paste a command into 
> a shell prompt.

Right. I interpreted Stefan's statement as concerning Emacs, not 
OSC 52 itself.
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