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From: "Joshua Hudson" <joshudson@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Fwd: [PATCH] Add a /proc/self/exedir link
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 12:01:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bda6d13a0604071201h64bfab2av21c8c3e0bbd8af0d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bda6d13a0604071201o36496a55o2eae6a65153a06c3@mail.gmail.com>

> Also there is a very serious problem with suid exectuables.
> If a non privileged user has write access to the same filesystem
> the exectuables live on they can create a hard link to those
> files and change the prefix.  Quite possibly getting the suid
> executables to trust a new set of exectuables.

Excellent point. This proposal needs to die, but there needs to be some way
to solve this problem.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-07 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5XGlt-GY-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <5XGOz-1eP-35@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-04-06 11:39   ` Bodo Eggert
2006-04-06 13:21     ` Mike Hearn
2006-04-06 17:02       ` Bodo Eggert
2006-04-06 19:36         ` Mike Hearn
2006-04-07 18:40           ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]             ` <bda6d13a0604071201o36496a55o2eae6a65153a06c3@mail.gmail.com>
2006-04-07 19:01               ` Joshua Hudson [this message]
2006-04-07 19:17                 ` Fwd: " John Stoffel
2006-04-07 19:22             ` Mike Hearn

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