Re: GNU Emacs 25.2 enriched text remote code execution

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

* Paul Eggert:

> == Mitigation ==
>
> To work around the bug in unfixed versions of Emacs, put the following code in 
> your personal or site-wide Emacs init file (~/.emacs, ~/emacs.d/init.el, 
> site-start.el):
>
>    ;; Mitigate Bug#28350 (security) in Emacs 25.2 and earlier.
>    (eval-after-load "enriched"
>      '(defun enriched-decode-display-prop (start end &optional param)
>         (list start end)))

This does not override the function in all cases when enriched is
loaded.  Something like this would be more reliable, but it will of
course slow down the starting of Emacs:

(require 'enriched)
(defun enriched-decode-display-prop (start end &optional param)
  (list start end))