From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Closing a privilege escalation
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:40:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1fBT5b-00035k-Nb@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3d0yof4zu.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 25 Apr 2018 03:29:25 +0200)
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> > With some arguments, emacs started inside sudo will run the user's own
> > .emacs file rather than root's. This creates a known vulnerability
> > for privilege escalation.
> Is this about bug#28618? I think this issue was discussed
> comprehensively there.
The discussion reached the conclusion that the problem is real, even
with recent GNU/Linux systems. We have not fixed it.
I'm proposing a solution that I think will be adequate. Does
anyone have comments about this solution?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-25 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-25 1:09 Closing a privilege escalation Richard Stallman
2018-04-25 1:18 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-04-25 22:40 ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-25 1:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-25 22:40 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2018-04-26 7:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-26 7:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-26 21:05 ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-26 21:26 ` Tim Cross
2018-04-27 15:57 ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-27 9:50 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-04-27 14:29 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-04-25 15:25 ` Davis Herring
2018-04-25 16:47 ` Glenn Morris
2018-04-25 17:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25 17:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25 17:55 ` Paul Eggert
2018-04-26 21:01 ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-25 17:10 ` Søren Pilgård
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