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Autor: Gonzalo Pérez de Olaguer Córdoba
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A: dng
Asunto: Re: [DNG] Security problem
Hi, Jochen.

El Mon, 30 Sep 2019 19:29:34 +0200
"J. Fahrner via Dng" <dng@???> escribió:

> I just came across a security problem. The application signal-desktop
> could not be started anymore because a file from the electron framework
> did not set a setuid bit
> (https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/3536).
> For the sandbox feature this obviously needs root privileges.
> It creeps me out when an application from an untrusted source installs
> programs with root privileges without me even noticing it.
> How can I protect myself against this? Is there a way to check Debian
> packages for a setuid bit set, e.g. in the post-install script?


See the manpage for dpkg-statoverride(1)
and the file /val/lib/dpkg/statoverride

Cheers.

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