From: Jurjen Oskam <jurjen@stupendous.org>
To: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: File Permissions are incorrect. Security flaw in Linux
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:53:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031001135322.GA16692@quadpro.stupendous.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1065012013.4078.2.camel@lisaserver>
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 06:40:13AM -0600, Lisa R. Nelson wrote:
> [1.] One line summary of the problem:
> A low level user can delete a file owned by root and belonging to group
> root even if the files permissions are 744. This is not in agreement
> with Unix, and is a major security issue.
This *is* in agreement with Unix. It works exactly the same on AIX, for
example.
--
Jurjen Oskam
PGP Key available at http://www.stupendous.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-01 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-01 12:40 File Permissions are incorrect. Security flaw in Linux Lisa R. Nelson
2003-10-01 13:08 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-01 13:08 ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2003-10-01 13:23 ` viro
[not found] ` <1065017722.2995.10.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2003-10-01 15:40 ` viro
2003-10-01 19:27 ` DervishD
2003-10-01 13:53 ` Jurjen Oskam [this message]
2003-10-01 14:09 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-01 14:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-10-01 15:01 ` John Bradford
2003-10-01 13:58 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-10-01 14:21 ` DervishD
[not found] ` <1065044031.2158.23.camel@wynken.reefedge.com>
2003-10-01 14:37 ` Lisa R. Nelson
2003-10-01 15:11 ` Bas Mevissen
2003-10-01 15:12 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-01 16:08 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-01 19:21 ` DervishD
2003-10-01 20:30 ` viro
2003-10-01 17:23 ` Brett
2003-10-01 19:24 ` DervishD
2003-10-02 10:32 ` Christian
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