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D-Bus is a disgrace to the Linux desktop (blog.vaxry.net)
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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 4 points 19 hours ago

vaxry talked about LD_PRELOAD and I feel like that is a non-issue in this case.
If an attacker has the ability to modify LD_PRELOAD of an application, they already an ability to modify its behaviour without depending upon what D-Bus may let it do.
And if the attacker can change LD_PRELOAD for a process running as root, they might as well affect the target service directly rather than try doing something with the dbus daemon.