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bug#4291: 23.1; doc-view-mode temporary directory vulnerable to denial o
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Glenn Morris |
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bug#4291: 23.1; doc-view-mode temporary directory vulnerable to denial of service |
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Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:44:53 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
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>> IIRC /tmp/docview$uid is predictable because doc-view tries to reuse
>> previouly-rendered pages. I'm not convinced this is really a good
>> feature, but obviously the author thought it was important, so I'd
>> rather not drop it without a discussion.
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> It could just stash the directory name in a variable, and use the normal
> `make-temp-file' to create the directory, couldn't it?
I think the idea referred to above is to potentially re-use pages
converted by a previous Emacs instance (which seems like a bad feature
to me too).