<html>
<head>
<base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" />
</head>
<body>
<p>
<div>
<b><a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_NEW "
title="NEW - systemd-coredump can run elfutils as root"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87354#c5">Comment # 5</a>
on <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_NEW "
title="NEW - systemd-coredump can run elfutils as root"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87354">bug 87354</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:zbyszek@in.waw.pl" title="Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>"> <span class="fn">Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek</span></a>
</span></b>
<pre>Triggering an assert or segmentation fault can often be done relatively easy. I
don't know what kind of bugs elfutils might have, but I image that something
like an overlong function argument could lead to some issue. Both of those
things can imaginably be under attacker control. It is a basic security in
depth thing — we should try to make it harder to escalate. Running elfutils as
root with privileges should be avoided.</pre>
</div>
</p>
<hr>
<span>You are receiving this mail because:</span>
<ul>
<li>You are the QA Contact for the bug.</li>
<li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>