[CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

Thu Dec 16 22:03:00 UTC 2010
Leonard den Ottolander <leonard at den.ottolander.nl>

Hello Mark,

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 16:21 -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> One possibility: suppose someone cracks in as the user that owns those
> directories. They could then install whatever they want in there... and
> the next time you built and installed something, it could carry their
> payload.

How would that be more of an issue using /usr/src/redhat than any other
directory?

And seeing that most builds start with either installing a srpm or
building directly in which case that srpm is also being freshly
installed how is this enabling an attacker to deliver a payload?

Regards,
Leonard.

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