On 09/25/2014 12:45 PM, Steve Meyers wrote:
> If you can influence the environment of a SUID script, it may allow 
> privilege escalation.

Linux doesn't allow scripts to be setuid.  But a setuid binary could be
making system() calls using the caller's environment, I suppose.  Though
most I've seen create a special environment for subprocesses.


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