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"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:

> On 02/12/2017 06:01 PM, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
>> Am 12.02.2017 um 15:37 schrieb David Craven:
>>> I think that it is a minor
>>> issue at best, since anything that isn't accessible over the network or=
 running
>>> with any sort of privileges is not very useful.
>>=20
>> I strongly disagree!
>>=20
>> Every piece of software available on the system may the intruder. The
>> server may not be running so it can not be attacked in the first place.
>> But if an intruder gains (unprivileged) access to the system, he might
>> be able to start that server software. Then he might use it for
>> privilege escalation (if the server software is vulnerable), as a
>> back-channel or for attacking further systems.
>>=20
>
> An attacker with enough privileges to run Murmur has enough privileges
> to install Murmur anyway (perhaps but not necessarily by using Guix).

Definitely.  And they might just as well run software that=E2=80=99s more u=
seful
for their purposes, like a botnet server.  :-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.