Comment 2 for bug 43328
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| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote Re: The build-in terminal is not set read-only | #2 |
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Welcome to the world of running root programs under X :( The injection of X events into running root applications is generally feasible. It is even more easy to ptrace() all user's processes and try whether they have a sudo tty ticket. The latter method is even easier and just requires 10 lines of shell and an installed gdb.
Therefore I unmarked this as security/private, since it is nothing special. I keep it open since it might be fixed in Feisty. However, I believe that it does make senese to not make the terminal read-only, because sometimes dpkg asks conffile questions, and some broken packages might even ask interactive questions without using debconf.
I leave the judgement of whether to keep this open to Michael.