Re: CVE-2021-4034: why is pkexec still a thing?

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On Fri, 2022-01-28 at 19:06 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 6:46 PM Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2022-01-28 at 15:49 +0200, Adrian Sevcenco wrote:
> > > > But that was then, and this is now. Does anything in
> > > > Workstation
> > > > use
> > > > pkexec? Does anything in KDE use it? I'm pretty sure (at least
> > > > I
> > > > really
> > > > hope!) nothing in Server uses it. I don't think any of our
> > > well, a simple ag on /usr/{bin,sbin} show presence of pkexec in
> > > the
> > > following:
> > > root@hal: ~ # ag -l pkexec /usr/bin/
> > 
> > I've never heard of ag. Apparently it's part of something called
> > the_silver_searcher, which I hadn't heard of either. Some kind of
> > grep
> > perhaps?
> > 
> 
> Yeah, it's a grep alternative. I use "rg" from ripgrep myself, though
> I used to use "ag" before.

I actually have rg installed but had forgotten about it. I just use
grep because it's easier to remember and more standardised.

poc
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