PolicyKit and malware, was: What I HATE about F11

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Thu Jun 18 19:59:27 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Richard W.M. Jones<rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> Can the malware inject code into the process which gained the
> authentication (eg. using ptrace)?

Also, using a new PackageKit the worst you'll be able to do is install
signed software from already configured repos. Installing untrusted
packages is now another one-shot authentication.

Richard.




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