[PATCH 2/2] emacs: Quote MML tags in replies

Aaron Ecay aaronecay at gmail.com
Sat Jan 28 22:07:08 PST 2012


Emacs message-mode uses certain text strings to indicate how to attach
files to outgoing mail.  If these are present in the text of an email,
and a user is tricked into replying to the message, the user’s files
could be exposed.
---
 NEWS                 |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
 emacs/notmuch-mua.el |    3 ++-
 test/emacs           |    1 -
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2acdce5..c8b90c7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -56,6 +56,24 @@ Compatibility with GMime 2.6
   However, a bug in current GMime 2.6 causes notmuch not to report
   signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug 668085).
 
+Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-xx-xx)
+===========================
+
+Emacs Interface
+---------------
+
+Quote MML tags in replies
+
+  MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
+  (among other things) in messages being composed.  The Emacs
+  interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.  If
+  a user could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
+  message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text, this
+  could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
+  outgoing message.  The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
+  reply text, so that they cannot have an effect on the outgoing
+  message.
+
 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
 =========================
 
diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-mua.el b/emacs/notmuch-mua.el
index 023645e..32c376d 100644
--- a/emacs/notmuch-mua.el
+++ b/emacs/notmuch-mua.el
@@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ list."
     (push-mark))
   (set-buffer-modified-p nil)
 
-  (message-goto-body))
+  (message-goto-body)
+  (mml-quote-region (point) (mark)))
 
 (defun notmuch-mua-forward-message ()
   (message-forward)
diff --git a/test/emacs b/test/emacs
index a57513a..affcca4 100755
--- a/test/emacs
+++ b/test/emacs
@@ -274,7 +274,6 @@ EOF
 test_expect_equal_file OUTPUT EXPECTED
 
 test_begin_subtest "Quote MML tags on reply"
-test_subtest_known_broken
 add_message '[from]="1337 h4xor <test at test.com>"' \
             '[to]="Unsuspecting rube <luser at securityhole.com>"' \
             '[subject]="hackety hack hack"' \
-- 
1.7.9



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