On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 8:47:45 PM CEST Michael Ellerman wrote:
> At least for stdout-path, I can't really see how that would significantly help
> an attacker, but I'm all ears if anyone has ideas.
That's actually an easy one that came up before: If an attacker controls
a tty device (e.g. network console) that can be used to enter a debugger
(kdb, kgdb, xmon, ...), enabling that to be the console device
gives you a direct attack vector. The same thing will happen if you
have a piece of software that intentially gives extra rights to the
owner of the console device by treating it as "physical presence".
Arnd
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