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Bug#408929: emacs21: crash on spam
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severity 408929 important
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On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:56:40PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> I'll ask that we tag this bug as etch-ignore: there are tons of bugs like
> this one in Emacs and there are multiple chances to expose such bugs
> by using many different packages.
> Futhermore, emac
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've tagged this bug security, because it wasn't clear to me
> whether this was a potentially exploitable problem. Do you think
> that tag applies here?
Yes, I think it does. Crashing Emacs is a denial of service attack
against the various applicatio
reassign 408929 emacs21
tags 408929 patch
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This is a known bug in the way Emacs computes the size of some GIF
images; the attached patch (adapted from a similar change in CVS)
fixes the crash for me.
Thanks,
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On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:12:21PM +0100, Romain Francoise wrote:
> reassign 408929 emacs21
> tags 408929 patch
> quit
> This is a known bug in the way Emacs computes the size of some GIF
> images; the attached patch (adapted from a similar change in CVS)
> fixes the crash for me.
Ok, thanks for
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> reassign 408929 emacs21
Bug#408929: emacs21: crash on spam
Bug reassigned from package `vm' to `emacs21'.
> tags 408929 patch
Bug#408929: emacs21: crash on spam
Tags were: security
Tags added: patch
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Package: emacs21
Version: 21.4a+1-3
Severity: critical
The spam email appended below causes emacs to crash with
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x08706488 ***
Fatal error (6).
or even simply with
Fatal error (11).Segmentation fault
To reproduce:
start emac
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