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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Cc: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>,
	Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Set up argv0_path correctly, even when argv[0] is just the basename
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:35:10 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807261732500.26810@eeepc-johanness> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488B409D.40709@keyaccess.nl>

Hi,

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Rene Herman wrote:

> Adding to the PATH is generally not disallowed by user level security. 
> Replacing the GIT binary generally is.

Prepending to the PATH is generally not disallowed either.  And that's 
just as good as replacing the Git binary.

This issue is totally independent of Git.  And it is totally bogus to 
think about the complicated issues when the "weakest link of the chain" is 
much easier to exploit.

Hth,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-26 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-26  9:41 [PATCH] Modify mingw_main() workaround to avoid link errors Steffen Prohaska
2008-07-26 13:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-26 16:07   ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-07-26 14:14 ` [PATCH] Set up argv0_path correctly, even when argv[0] is just the basename Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-26 14:54   ` Rene Herman
2008-07-26 15:10     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-26 15:19       ` Rene Herman
2008-07-26 15:35         ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2008-07-26 15:53           ` Rene Herman
2008-07-26 17:31   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-26 17:42     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-03 20:25   ` Jan Hudec
2008-08-03 20:43     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-26 20:37 ` [PATCH] Modify mingw_main() workaround to avoid link errors Johannes Sixt
2008-07-26 21:36   ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-07-27 19:24     ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-29  4:46       ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-07-29  8:33         ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-29 19:46           ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-08-03 19:55 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-08-03 21:21   ` Junio C Hamano

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