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Date:      Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:37:03 +0300 (MSK)
From:      Dmitry Valdov <dv@dv.ru>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: disk quota overriding
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.990317153543.5316A-100000@xkis.kis.ru>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.990317143707.15120A-100000@xkis.kis.ru>

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Hi!


I think that there is only one way to fix it - it's to disable making
*hard*links to directory with mode 1777.

On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Dmitry Valdov wrote:

> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 14:42:46 +0300 (MSK)
> From: Dmitry Valdov <dv@dv.ru>
> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
> Subject: disk quota overriding
> 
> Hi!
> 
> There is a way to overflow / filesystem even is quota is enabled.
> 
> Just make many hard links (for example /bin/sh) to /tmp/
> 
> for ($q=0;$q<100000;$q++){
> system ("ln /bin/sh /tmp/ln$q");
> }
> 
> Because /tmp directory usually owned by root that why quotas has no effect.
> *Directory* size of /tmp can be grown up to available space on / filesystem.
> 
> Any way to fix it?
> 
> Dmitry.
> 
> 
> 



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