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Re: RUS-CERT Advisory 200004-01: GNU Emacs 20

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Harkless)
Wed Apr 19 20:48:42 2000

Message-Id:  <200004191847.LAA17706@dilvish.speed.net>
Date:         Wed, 19 Apr 2000 11:47:35 -0700
Reply-To: Dan Harkless <dan-bugtraq@DILVISH.SPEED.NET>
From: Dan Harkless <dan-bugtraq@DILVISH.SPEED.NET>
X-To:         bugtraq@securityfocus.com
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To:  Message from "RUS-CERT, University of Stuttgart" 
              <cert@UNI-STUTTGART.DE> of "Tue, 18 Apr 2000 14:17:05 +0200." 
              <tg4s8zioxq.fsf@mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>

"RUS-CERT, University of Stuttgart" <cert@UNI-STUTTGART.DE> writes:
>      ____________________________________________________________
>
>                 RUS-CERT Advisory 200004-01: GNU Emacs 20
>
> RUS-CERT, University of Stuttgart
>
> 2000-04-18
>
> Summary
>
>    Several vulnerabilities were discovered in all Emacs versions up
>    to 20.6, namely:
[...]

As an XEmacs user, I would have liked to have seen one of the following
statements:

* These vulnerabilities only apply to GNU Emacs, not XEmacs.

* We do not know if these vulnerabilities also apply to XEmacs.

* These vulnerabilities apply to equally to GNU Emacs and XEmacs.

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