PolicyKit and malware, was: What I HATE about F11

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:09:29PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:02:22AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > The retained authorization is only valid for the subject that obtained
> > it, which will typically be a process (identified by process id and
> > start time) or a canonical bus name. And your malware does not have
> > either.
> 
> Can the malware inject code into the process which gained the
> authentication (eg. using ptrace)?

If you have malware in your session then it's already able to capture 
your password. You've already effectively lost.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org