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SubjectRe: hard links create local DoS vulnerability and security problems
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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.
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