[PATCH] ping: try SOCK_DGRAM if no root privileges

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Jan 9 15:22:27 UTC 2014


On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Laurent Bercot <ska-dietlibc at skarnet.org> wrote:
> I never understood all the fuss about that or the chosen
> Busybox solution. Gaining privileges is the single most dangerous
> thing in Unix

An attacker who only manages to subvert your user account,
of course, can't get at the precious things like /usr/bin/* files
and modify or delete them.

He can only read your locally saved emails,
browser's cache and saved passwords
of your bank website login.

Oh, wait...


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