Re: Emacs Arbitrary Code Execution and How to Avoid It

[Richard Stallman]

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This sounds like a grave problem, that we had better correct ASAP.
Can we reproduce it?  Can we see how it happens that Emacs
evals code that the user did not specifically say to eval?

Users writing Lisp code can cause any sort of vulnerability and it is
no use trying to prevent that.  But I think we should make sure that
no use of advertised features will eval code that the user did
specifically say to eval.

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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