Re: DLL hijacking on Linux

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Tim Brown wrote:

> the key point is that an empty directory specification statement in
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PATH (and probably others) is equivalent to $CWD.

And there is also the infamous DT_RPATH (and DT_RUNPATH) that makes it
possible to hardwire unsafe paths into executable files themselves.
This happens quite often and I find it very disturbing.

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