My understanding is it was a few added characters in a header file. I can’t tell you the number of times I was tired and clicked an extra key before committing, or my cat walked across the keyboard while I was out of the room.
I suppose I’m asking for the chain of events that led to the conclusion. I see lots of technical hot takes for how something could work, with no validation it does, nor intent behind it.
I’d like to understand what steps we know were taken and how that presents itself.
It's actually pretty sophisticated. You don't accidentally write a in-memory ELF program header parser.