From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@scaramanga.co.uk>
To: Jakob Lell <jlell@JakobLell.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hard links create local DoS vulnerability and security problems
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:26:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1069759557.24559.274.camel@lemsip> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200311241736.23824.jlell@JakobLell.de>
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On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 17:36, Jakob Lell wrote:
> To solve the problem, the kernel shouldn't allow users to create hard links to
> files belonging to someone else.
chmod(fn, 0);
truncate(fn, 0);
unlink(fn);
then just the inode remains.
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// Gianni Tedesco (gianni at scaramanga dot co dot uk)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-25 11:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-24 16:36 hard links create local DoS vulnerability and security problems Jakob Lell
2003-11-24 17:05 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-11-24 20:42 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-11-24 17:14 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-11-24 17:35 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-11-24 18:57 ` aic7xxx loading oops in 2.6.0-test10 Alexander Nyberg
2003-11-24 20:03 ` Ken Witherow
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0311241524310.1245@morpheus>
2003-11-24 20:49 ` Ken Witherow
2003-11-24 23:42 ` Dick Streefland
2003-11-25 3:16 ` hard links create local DoS vulnerability and security problems Matthias Andree
2003-11-25 14:48 ` Jan Kara
2003-11-25 15:27 ` Jakob Lell
2003-11-24 17:37 ` Rudo Thomas
2003-11-24 18:10 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-11-24 18:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-11-24 22:17 ` [OT] " Rudo Thomas
2003-11-24 17:57 ` Jakob Lell
2003-11-24 18:08 ` splite
2003-11-24 18:13 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-11-24 18:24 ` Jakob Lell
2003-11-24 23:57 ` bill davidsen
2003-11-24 18:18 ` Jakob Lell
2003-11-24 18:29 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-11-24 19:25 ` hard links create local DoS vulnerability and security proble Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2003-11-24 20:00 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-11-24 20:02 ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2003-11-24 20:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-24 18:21 ` hard links create local DoS vulnerability and security problems Michael Buesch
2003-11-24 18:35 ` Jakob Lell
2003-11-24 18:53 ` Chris Wright
2003-11-25 0:04 ` bill davidsen
2003-11-25 13:54 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-11-24 23:50 ` bill davidsen
2003-11-25 0:22 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-11-25 0:35 ` Chris Wright
2003-11-25 8:15 ` Amon Ott
2003-11-25 16:11 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-11-25 11:26 ` Gianni Tedesco [this message]
[not found] <fa.hevpbbs.u5q2r6@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.l1quqni.v405hu@ifi.uio.no>
2003-11-24 20:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2003-11-24 21:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-24 23:28 ` Ricky Beam
2003-11-24 22:04 ` John Bradford
2003-11-24 22:12 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-11-25 12:10 ` John Bradford
2003-11-25 12:18 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-11-25 13:12 ` John Bradford
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