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bug#28618: Emacs Security Issue
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From: |
Glenn Morris |
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Subject: |
bug#28618: Emacs Security Issue |
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Date: |
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:41:26 -0400 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
On some systems, sudo may preserve HOME by default. Or it may be
optional behaviour with "sudo -E" (eg on Debian 8, it seems).
(Of course, the attacker who has complete control of your user account
could alias "sudo" to "sudo -E".)
Ref eg
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18369/issues-with-preserving-home-on-sudo
As it stands, I don't think this is an Emacs issue.