From: "M. Mohan Kumar" <mohan@in.ibm.com>
To: "Andreas Färber" <andreas.faerber@web.de>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
qemu-devel Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] virtio-9p: Use clone approach to fix TOCTOU vulnerability
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:50:51 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110616112051.GC3428@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DF599968-3420-43D7-9B21-5189F671D6D0@web.de>
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:10:00PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 14.06.2011 um 10:12 schrieb M. Mohan Kumar:
>
>> [RFC PATCH] virtio-9p: Use clone approach to fix TOCTOU vulnerability
>
> Subject doesn't need to be duplicated.
Ok
>
>> In passthrough security model, following a symbolic link in the server
>> side could result in TOCTTOU vulnerability.
>
> TOCTOU or TOCTTOU? Don't know what either is, so probably others too -
> that acronym could use an explanation or link to CVE/etc.
Its TOCTTOU (Time of check to time of usage). Sure next time I will include some more information about this.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-16 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-14 8:12 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] virtio-9p: Use clone approach to fix TOCTOU vulnerability M. Mohan Kumar
2011-06-15 15:24 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-06-16 11:28 ` M. Mohan Kumar
2011-06-15 17:35 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-06-15 18:16 ` Venkateswararao Jujjuri
2011-06-16 5:16 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-06-15 20:10 ` Andreas Färber
2011-06-16 11:20 ` M. Mohan Kumar [this message]
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