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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Thu Apr 20 16:29:55 2000

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Date:         Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:59:51 +0200
Reply-To: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.UNI-STUTTGART.DE>
From: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.UNI-STUTTGART.DE>
X-To:         Dan Harkless <dan-bugtraq@DILVISH.SPEED.NET>
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In-Reply-To:  Dan Harkless's message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2000 11:47:35 -0700"

Dan Harkless <dan-bugtraq@DILVISH.SPEED.NET> writes:

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

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

This seems to be the case.  I've just looked briefly at XEmacs 20.4
and some versions of the 21.1 branch, and they seem to be quite
similar to GNU Emacs in this regard.

The XEmacs development team has already been contacted, and they will
certainly be able to clarify this.

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