From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Add murmur.
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:15:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inoedvmw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cce1b88a-d189-5f79-21ec-7e8c74cf3b71@pelzflorian.de> (pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de's message of "Sun, 12 Feb 2017 18:42:42 +0100")
"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.
>>
>> I strongly disagree!
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> 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’s more useful
for their purposes, like a botnet server. :-)
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-13 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-01 20:43 Add murmur contact.ng0
2017-02-01 20:43 ` [PATCH] gnu: mumble: Add 'murmur' output contact.ng0
2017-02-01 21:15 ` Add murmur ng0
2017-02-09 16:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-02-09 18:20 ` ng0
2017-02-09 22:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-02-10 21:39 ` ng0
2017-02-10 21:54 ` Marius Bakke
2017-02-10 22:15 ` ng0
2017-02-11 14:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-02-11 14:39 ` ng0
2017-02-12 13:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-02-12 13:53 ` ng0
2017-02-12 13:57 ` David Craven
2017-02-12 14:02 ` ng0
2017-02-12 14:37 ` David Craven
2017-02-12 17:01 ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-02-12 17:42 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2017-02-13 14:15 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-02-12 17:54 ` David Craven
2017-02-14 10:13 ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-02-14 9:00 ` ng0
2017-02-12 12:23 ` server and client in one package -> security issue (was: Add murmur) Hartmut Goebel
2017-02-12 12:31 ` ng0
2017-02-12 12:53 ` David Craven
2017-02-12 16:52 ` server and client in one package -> security issue Hartmut Goebel
2017-02-13 14:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-02-14 10:28 ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-02-14 11:19 ` Andy Wingo
2017-02-14 9:16 ` server and client in one package -> security issue (was: Add murmur) Danny Milosavljevic
2017-02-14 9:51 ` ng0
2017-02-14 10:44 ` server and client in one package -> security issue Hartmut Goebel
2017-04-24 7:01 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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