On Wed, 14 Aug 2019, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 14.08.19 um 12:10 schrieb Ulrich Windl:
> >>>> Michael Chapman <m...@very.puzzling.org> schrieb am 14.08.2019 um 11:47 
> >>>> in
> >> That's all true, but the thing we need to check here is that systemd 
> >> correctly handles junk on the /run/systemd/private socket. The change on 
> >> the systemctl side certainly tries to prevent incorrect data being sent 
> >> down the socket -- though it looks like there's several ways in which 
> >> fd_move_above_stdio() can fail, so this isn't foolproof -- but we need to 
> >> ensure that some _malicious_ client can't DoS systemd.
> > 
> > I don't want to contradict in principle, but doesn't "private socket" mean 
> > it's intended to be used by systemd only? Of course being root allows you 
> > to use any socket...
> 
> may is ask you to read the thread you are responding to?
> nobody is touching the private socket

systemctl will mostly use /run/systemd/private when run as root.
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