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Race conditions

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Bresnahan)
Wed Dec 7 15:32:00 1994

Date: Wed, 7 Dec 94 10:57 CST
From: gudu@winternet.com (Michael Bresnahan)
To: bugtraq@fc.net

How does one code a suid program so that it evades these problems with
symlink race conditions?  Is there a way to atomically check if a file
is a symlink and open it, or is there another stratedgy?

MikeB

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