On 2009-07-29 17:08 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > found 473746 21.4a+1-3etch1 > severity 473746 important > thanks > > On 2008-04-01 14:33:24 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> It's a known problem, see >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=426733#14 for an >> explanation and a patch. > > This still occurs in emacs21 21.4a+1-3etch1. At my lab (with > NFS-mounted home directories), this froze emacs for more than > 3 minutes!
If you have root rights, the workaround is easy: install emacs21-common-non-dfsg or touch /usr/share/emacs/21.4/etc/GNU. > I don't know what emacs does with this file, but I also wonder > whether this could be a security bug if some local user skx adds > a nasty /home/skx/emacs21-21.4a+1/etc/GNU file (even if this is > just a text file, a huge file or a symlink to /dev/random may > have bad effects if emacs tries to read it entirely, but I can't > test). No, this is not a security issue. Emacs does not read the file at all, it does merely stat(2) it. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
