Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 22:45:00 +0000 From: Niall Smart <rotel@indigo.ie> To: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Symlinks again... Message-ID: <199809082145.WAA00732@indigo.ie> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980423160425.8809A-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>; Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>
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On Apr 23, 4:09pm, Nicholas Charles Brawn wrote: } Subject: Symlinks again... > Another symlink problem. > > The script /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb and /usr/libexec/locate.mklocatedb > create predictable filenames in /tmp. Example attack is shown below. Bah, I sent in patches for this ages ago (6, 7 months?) in a PR, obviously everyone's too busy to care about security. Niall -- Niall Smart, rotel@indigo.ie. Amaze your friends and annoy your enemies: echo '#define if(x) if (!(x))' >> /usr/include/stdio.h To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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