Re: [Sheflug] Sheflug Meeting / AccessSpace NIS

[Matthew Palmer <nospam [at] ieee.uow.edu.au>]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Will Newton wrote:

> > But both attacks are local attacks - they only count if you have a machine
> > with untrusted users. And even then, only in limited circumstances (it's
> > harder than a temp file attack, in the case of DEADJOE). Not something
> > that's going to keep me awake at night..
> 
> It's not that it bothers me, I never run joe, I'm a vim man. And yes, I do
> recall vim having a quite similar vulnerability a few months ago, but the
> joe vulnerabilities do hint at some pretty crap program design.

I'm sorry, but could you please elaborate on this?  It sounds to me like
you're saying "my editor had this problem, but it's fixed so it's still a
good editor.  Your editor had this problem, but it's been fixed, but it's
got a crap design".

- Matt

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