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From: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <mathieu@newview.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: splite@purdue.edu, root@chaos.analogic.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hard links create local DoS vulnerability and security proble
Date: 24 Nov 2003 14:25:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xltptfhd0wk.fsf@shookay.newview.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200311241829.hAOITdKL014364@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:
> mkdir ~/bin
> chmod 700 ~/bin
> cat > ~/bin/show-me
> #!/bin/sh
> whoami
> ^D
> chmod 4755 ~/bin/show-me
> 
> No separate partitions needed.

It's always been my understanding that you cannot have suid shell script
because you could easily change the IFS. Am i wrong? (

-- 
Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer              E-Mail : mathieu@newview.com
       Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately
                    explained by stupidity.
                     -- Hanlon's Razor --

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-24 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ 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           ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer [this message]
2003-11-24 20:00             ` hard links create local DoS vulnerability and security proble 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

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