Local users get to play root?

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 14:22:21 UTC 2009


2009/11/19 Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>:
> Once upon a time, Ricky Zhou <ricky at fedoraproject.org> said:
>> I might be wrong on this, but wouldn't the attacker need to trick
>> yum/packagekit into using the malicious repo first?  I didn't think that
>> was allowed for non-root users.
>
> 1.5 words: NetworkManager.  Think about it.

2 words: Package signing.

If the key is different to the one that was preciously imported, you
need the root password.

Richard.




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