[1245] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
Re: [linux-security] Re: t bit and symlinks patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wietse Venema)
Sat Oct 19 12:18:14 1996
From: wietse@wzv.win.tue.nl (Wietse Venema)
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 96 14:37:21 MET DST
In-Reply-To:
To my surprise the discussion focuses entirely on symlink attacks from
world-writable directories. I remind the reader that many of these
attacks are also possible when sensitive files can be hardlinked to,
for example, the /tmp directory.
Wietse
