Re: Closing a privilege escalation

[Richard Stallman]

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  > And this exploit code could just as well not wait to be run as root and
  > instead install a key-logger on `sudo`, after which the attacker can
  > `sudo` to run any code it wants.

Maybe it is possible to figure out ways to make it impossible to set
up a phony sudo command.  But that would require several new security
features.  I don't know whether such features are possible or not.

It would be worth studying, but it isn't related to Emacs.

So I guess we can forget about trying to solve the rewritten .emacs
problem.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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