On 07/27/2011 05:00 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
On 7/27/11 1:09 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Depends on the PATH-Order
>
> if something is intended to be first in PATH and any attacker is able
> to write there his "ls" would win against "/bin/ls"
So, the attacker can write a compromised ls into .local/bin/, but isn't
able to modify your .bash_profile ? Seems like a stretch.
Yeh its a bit of a stretch - but it is a little bit easier for a
blackhat to drop a file somewhere than to edit/replace a specific
existing file (which could/should be rx not rwx) ... (think phishing) ..
but still getting it to a damaging place can be more tricky ...
gene