[Full-Disclosure] Re: hard links on Linux create local DoS vulnerability and security problems

Christopher Allene cwis at nerim.fr
Thu Nov 27 01:57:59 GMT 2003


Jeremiah Cornelius (jeremiah at nur.net) wrote on 2003-11-26 at 14:18:
> And a mandatory system profile in /etc , which aliases ln as 'ln -s' might 
> help.  One for each valid shell.

How would such an approach avoid people calling symlink(2) or
unalias/whatever ?

Seems as good as security through obscurity to me.

-- 
Christopher Allène




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