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Re: Security implications of allowing init to re-exec from another path



also sprach Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> [2006.01.04.1619 +0100]:
> Nevertheless the sysvinit maintainers thought it would be a good
> idea to ask here whether anyone sees any security problems arising
> from this feature.

... sounds like a nice way to infest a system with a trojan, in
addition to kernel modules and other Linux maladities. That is, if
the attacker gets root...

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