Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 8184] As root WIRESHARK_RUN_FROM_BUILD_DIRECTORY set, but
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From: bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:20:31 +0000

changed bug 8184

What Removed Added
Status UNCONFIRMED RESOLVED
Resolution --- NOTABUG

Comment # 4 on bug 8184 from 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Hmm, so WIRESHARK_RUN_FROM_BUILD_DIRECTORY does not do anything if I am root?
> 
> >If we were started
> >with special privileges, it's not safe to allow the user to point
> >us to some other directory
> 
> 
> But what is unsafe here pointing to the build directory?

This has been put in from the beginning (see r21866), I guess for a scenario
like this:

user@host:~$ cd src/wireshark
user@host:~/src/wireshark$ ls plugins/my_hack/*.so
plugins/my_hack/plugin_spawning_shell.so
user@host:~/src/wireshark$ export WIRESHARK_RUN_FROM_BUILD_DIRECTORY=1
user@host:~/src/wireshark$ sudo wireshark

Now if this wasn't in you can point it to your evil plugin, which spawns a (now
root-)shell from its registration routine.

Therefore this is not a bug, it's a feature.

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