On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:14:22 -0400
Genes MailLists <lists(a)sapience.com> wrote:
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 ...
It isn't tricky at all to collect passwords like this.
gene