Subject: Re: bug#59544: [PATCH] Fixed lib-src/etags.c command execute vulnerability

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 20:38:04 +0200

> From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 10:12:31 -0800
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> But would it not be better to rewrite etags.c to not use system(1) at
> all?

That's a possibility, yes.  Although I doubt that people are still using
ctags that comes with Emacs (this code fragment runs only in ctags, not in
etags).