Messages in this thread | | | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Subject | Re: hard links create local DoS vulnerability and security problems | Date | Mon, 24 Nov 2003 23:12:24 +0100 |
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John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> writes:
>> 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.
It could be tricky to find those extra links if the original has been deleted, of course.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se
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