Subject: bug#28618: Emacs Security Issue

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 18:55:13 -0400

tags 28618 - unreproducible
tags 28618 + notabug
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Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:

> On some systems, sudo may preserve HOME by default. Or it may be
> optional behaviour with "sudo -E" (eg on Debian 8, it seems).

Ah, that explains the discrepancy then (it's the same with Debian 9,
which I'm using here).

> 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.

I agree.