From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>,
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] O_DIRECTORY|O_CREAT handling
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 18:25:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031228182500.GJ4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031228180341.GA1134@pimlott.net>
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 01:03:41PM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:51:10AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > base_dir="/tmp/tmpdir";
> > do {
> > rnd=random();
> > sprintf(dir, "%s%d", base_dir, rnd);
> > } while (!mkdir(dir, 0700);
> > /* now I'm guaranteed that I'm the first to get this dir, */
> > /* and only my UID can work in it */
> > chdir(dir);
> >
> > So the only race would be someone working with the same UID (or root) removing
> > the directory and replacing it with another one (or a symlink or anything)
> > between mkdir() and chdir().
>
> If /tmp isn't sticky, anyone can do this. I think this is the
> scenario Ulrich was referring to.
And if /etc/shadow is world-writable, anyone can do other interesting things.
Doctor, it hurts when I do it...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-28 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-21 9:40 Ulrich Drepper
2003-12-21 10:51 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-12-28 18:03 ` Andrew Pimlott
2003-12-28 18:25 ` viro [this message]
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