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Re: where to submit low security vulnerability in .profile?

From Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: where to submit low security vulnerability in .profile?
Date 2017-06-19 18:10 +0200
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Le primidi 1er messidor, an CCXXV, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit :
> That said, no, it is not usually considered a security vulnerability,
> because NOT using the full path to run commands such as "su" and "sudo"
> in the first place IS considered gross negligence.

If your account has been compromised so much that an attacker was able
to add something in ~/bin/, then using the full path of the commands
does not bring any extra security.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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where to submit low security vulnerability in .profile? David Bunch <depb@posteo.net> - 2017-06-18 07:20 +0200
  Re: where to submit low security vulnerability in .profile? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2017-06-18 11:10 +0200
    Re: where to submit low security vulnerability in .profile? RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-06-18 14:00 +0200
  Re: where to submit low security vulnerability in .profile? RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-06-18 14:00 +0200
    Re: where to submit low security vulnerability in .profile? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-06-18 19:10 +0200
  Re: where to submit low security vulnerability in .profile? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-06-19 14:40 +0200
    Re: where to submit low security vulnerability in .profile? Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-06-19 18:00 +0200
      Re: where to submit low security vulnerability in .profile? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-06-19 18:10 +0200
        Re: where to submit low security vulnerability in .profile? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2017-06-19 19:20 +0200
        Re: where to submit low security vulnerability in .profile? Ansgar Burchardt <"Ansgar Burchardt"@43-1.org> - 2017-06-20 01:40 +0200
      Re: where to submit low security vulnerability in .profile? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2017-06-19 18:10 +0200
      Re: where to submit low security vulnerability in .profile? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-06-19 18:40 +0200
        Re: where to submit low security vulnerability in .profile? Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-06-19 20:30 +0200

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