[TUHS] The size of EMACS, and what hides in kLOCs

Tim Bradshaw tfb at tfeb.org
Mon Feb 27 04:23:55 AEST 2017


On 26 Feb 2017, at 17:05, Michael Kjörling <michael at kjorling.se> wrote:
> 
> In the translated text that I have, the hacker relied primarily on
> Emacs' mail feature to move the compromised atrun into place for
> execution, in order to gain temporary root privileges.

This was the movemail SUID bug, and it's indeed in the original although I'm not sure how much detail he goes into.


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