Insecurity in view-lossage

[Alexander Petry]

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In GNU Emacs 20.7.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of Tue Apr  9 2002 on lilac modified by Debian
configured using `configure  --prefix=/usr --with-gcc --libexecdir=/usr/lib 
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --sharedstatedir=/var/lib 
--localstatedir=/var/lib --with-pop=yes --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=yes 
--with-xim=yes --enable-ipv6 i386-debian-linux-gnu'

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Hi. I think, I have found a bug considering the view-lossage function. If you 
have typed in 
a password in some buffer (i.e. shell, with the option 
"comint-output-filter-functions" set) 
one can read that password in the view-lossage (C-hl) function.

Yours sincerely,

alex



Recent input:
up up up up up up C-b C-v menu-bar edit undo up up 
up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up 
up up up C-x C-c n y e s backspace backspace backspace 
n o return f10 y e s return f10 f10 C-x 1 f10 f10 f10 
f10 f10 f10 f10 f10 f10 f10 C-x b C-g C-x C-b C-x 1 
M-b M-x M-b C-g M-x b u tab g tab backspace backspace 
backspace backspace r e tab p tab tab o tab r tab return 
C-g M-x up return

Recent messages:
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