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From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hard links create local DoS vulnerability and security problems
Date: 25 Nov 2003 00:04:07 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bpu69n$a3$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20031124105321.A16684@osdlab.pdx.osdl.net

In article <20031124105321.A16684@osdlab.pdx.osdl.net>,
Chris Wright  <chrisw@osdl.org> wrote:
| * Michael Buesch (mbuesch@freenet.de) wrote:
| > What about _not_ modifying the mainstream-kernel behaviour,
| > but adding an option, to make users unable to create such hard-links,
| > to selinux and/or grsec?
| 
| It's already in grsec and owl.  SELinux has the ability to control this
| behaviour, just requires the right policy.

Bah!! I just spent 20 minutes deciding that I could add an attribute to
a file which prevented hard links, and similar to a directory. OTOH you
saved me the work of doing more than a few lines on paper, and it's
reassuring to know the security patches are ahead of the problem.
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-25  0:15 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 [this message]
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
     [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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