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SubjectRe: hard links create local DoS vulnerability and security problems
Quote from Andy Lutomirski <luto@myrealbox.com>:
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>
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
> >
> > In any case, if a user is *MAKING* a program set-UID, it's probably because
> > he *wants* it to run as himself even if others invoke it (otherwise, he
> > could just leave it in ~/bin and be happy). So this is really a red herring,
> > as it's only a problem if (a) he decides to get rid of the binary, and fails
> > to do so because of hard links he doesn't know about, or (b) he's an idiot
> > programmer and it malfunctions if invoked with an odd argv[0]....
>
> Right... but non-privileged users _can't_ delete these extra links, even
> if they notice them from the link count.

They can truncate the file to zero length, though, then delete the
'original' link, making all of the other links point to the zero
length file.

John.
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