• BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    The theme contained rm -rf, but claims it wasn’t malicious intent…I assume rm -rf for cleanup, but seems like it should have a apecific path other than /

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      8 months ago

      The command was rm -rf $pathvariable

      Bug in the code caused the path to be root. Wasn’t explicitly malicious

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        8 months ago

        Don’t most distros have safeguards against this? I tried sudo rm -rf / in an Ubuntu VM that I was about to delete just to see what happened, and it gave me a warning. I had to add some other option to bypass the warning.