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by remram 415 days ago
I don't see how this attack is related to the setuid binary. No matter what method you provide to the user to elevate their privileges, they can be tricked into doing it. If it was provided by a daemon, built into systemd, or anything else, the problem would be the same.
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It's related because malicous code can use the setuid binary to elevate its privileges.

>If it was provided by a daemon, built into systemd, or anything else

Yes, this is also dangerous.

So what's your recommendation? Removing the user?