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Emacs Arbitrary Code Execution and How to Avoid It (eshelyaron.com)

submitted 2 months ago by sith@lemmy.zip to c/emacs@lemmy.ml

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[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

IDEs and such prompt the user whether they trust any new repositories they open. If Emacs had similar functionality, elisp eval could simply be disabled by default and users would then M-x trust-this-repository to permanently enable it again for the repo they're in.

[–] samc@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago

Plus we could also get rid of the hacky risky vs safe dir-locals system that fills up custom.el with clutter

[–] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

..all y'all know exactly how to avoid an emacs vulnerability, but I'm afraid to VoIce My opinion

[–] bunitor@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 2 months ago

quit computers

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Vim?

[–] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Shhh don't make the forbidden sound here, little one

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

nano