Magic paths for service registration

Florian Weimer fweimer at redhat.com
Mon Jun 17 07:37:37 UTC 2013


On 06/12/2013 06:44 PM, drago01 wrote:

> If you count extensions then /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions might
> qualify as well.

Are these extensions commonly used to start daemons are interact with 
the network?  Presumably, there are extensions for downloading weather 
data or stock exchange information, but this seems fairly restricted and 
low risk (especially if they use HTTPS, so that the data source would 
have to be compromised to attack installations).

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team


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