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Re: access(2)--a security hole?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howie Kaye)
Sat Oct 22 22:10:46 1994
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 1994 21:01:56 -0400
From: Howie Kaye <howie@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
To: bugtraq@crimelab.com, scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us
You still have no guarantee that the version you opened is the same as the
file you are checking the access() on. The same race condition exists, just
in reverse.
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Howie Kaye howie@columbia.edu
Columbia University hlkcu@cuvma.bitnet
UNIX Systems Group ...!rutgers!columbia!howie
