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From: Peter Simons <simons@××××.to>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-security] Re: No, apparently not.
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 02:52:36
Message-Id: 87654hqchc.fsf@peti.cryp.to
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] No, apparently not. by Ed Grimm
1 Ed Grimm writes:
2
3 > So how is it that having the Manifest files all signed,
4 > and having the Manifest signatures checked, and checking
5 > all the MD5 sums in the Manifest files against the files
6 > in the directories only a partial answer?
7
8 /usr/portage/eclass is not authenticated by this and
9 contains shell code that's (possibly) executed with
10 superuser privileges.
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12 Peter
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