On 29 Jan 2009, at 19:33, Mr. Gecko wrote:
I'm just going to use sscrypto framework for it...
If a malicious person can replace an executable with his own, he can
probably also replace a framework...
Regardless of any other problems, you've introduced a serious
weakness - a hacker just needs to temporarily change /sbin/md5 to a
shell script that cats the expected output. For that matter, they
could easily edit the binary to change the string "/sbin/md5" to
another path that does the deed (to avoid having to mess with sbin
each time)
If you are trying to write secure code, don't execute external
binaries that you have no control over and expect it to be secure.
Glenn Andreas [email protected]
<http://www.gandreas.com/> wicked fun!
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