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Re: Privilege scalation with GNU ld dlopen


From: Mike Patterson <mike () snowcrash ca>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:07:45 -0500

On 10-11-09 12:52 PM, Joshua Wright wrote:
On 11/9/2010 11:19 AM, Xavier Garcia wrote:
One should be safe because users need admin rights to write
there, but playing with setuid binaries is always dangerous.

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:57:37AM -0500, Nicholas B. wrote:
One would hope a system didn't allow just anyone to write to /lib/

Don't assume that /lib is the only path in LDPATH too.

Do you often see it set to include directories that users can write to?
 That would greatly surprise me.

Mike


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