How We Could Have Backdoored Bash (Hacktron blog)
The Hacktron blog documents how the group was able to compromise the GNU Savannah forge and could have pushed malware into any of the projects hosted there. Using Hacktron, we found that an email address like `touch${IFS}/tmp/savane-rce-proof`@attacker.example gave any registered user code execution on its backend. From there, we made our account a superuser, impersonated Bash's maintainer, and…
We haven't written up this one. LWN has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.
