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[Wyllys Ingersoll <Wyllys.Ingersoll@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Agree.  Hardcoding full pathnames is a bad practice in general.


On 5/14/13 11:50 AM, "Kevin L. Mitchell" <kevin.mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 18:38 +0300, Vasiliy Khomenko wrote:
>> Attacker can put binary in /usr/local/bin for example. on ubuntu that
>> path located before /usr/bin.
>
>If the attacker has write access to /usr/local/bin, it's already game
>over; I don't see what we can do to nova that can mitigate something
>that disastrous.
>
>-- 
>Kevin L. Mitchell <kevin.mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
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