Re: Reproducers for recent Emacs security issues

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andrew Cohen <acohen@ust.hk>
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:30:27 +0800
> 
> >>>>> "FW" == Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>     FW> It's a feature.  I think it comes the regular expression in
>     FW> mm-uu-type-alist.  Some of the features are quite nice, like
>     FW> diff highlighting.  Others are a bit scary (and not just the
>     FW> org-mode integration).
> 
> I stand corrected---this  still looks quite useful and seems to be
> working as intended. I was thrown off by the documentation which
> indicated it was just for uuencoded and yencoded content. 

Maybe I misunderstand something (I don't use Gnus), but isn't it a
security problem that the presence of such a line in an email message
causes Emacs to download a remote file?