From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
To: 47584@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47584: Race condition in ‘copy-account-skeletons’: possible privilege escalation.
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2021 18:32:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <67e04c1c532d4553c5456ebf581d7d3d3d59733c.camel@telenet.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63fbd9e37cc3582daf265277e64f0a99b20e05ec.camel@telenet.be>
On Sat, 2021-04-03 at 18:22 +0200, Maxime Devos wrote:
> + ;; It is important 'chown' is called after 'copy-account-skeletons'
> + ;; Otherwise, a malicious user with good timing could
> + ;; create a symlink in HOME that would be dereferenced by
> + ;; 'copy-account-skeletons'.
Oops please add a period after 'copy-account-skeletons';
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-03 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-03 16:09 bug#47584: Race condition in ‘copy-account-skeletons’: possible privilege escalation Maxime Devos
2021-04-03 16:22 ` Maxime Devos
2021-04-03 16:32 ` Maxime Devos [this message]
2021-04-03 20:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-03 16:26 ` Maxime Devos
2021-04-03 20:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-03 20:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-04 13:29 ` Maxime Devos
2021-04-03 20:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-03 20:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-04 7:36 ` Maxime Devos
2021-04-05 19:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-06 9:56 ` Maxime Devos
2021-04-06 11:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-07 18:28 ` Maxime Devos
2022-10-21 9:31 ` Maxime Devos
2022-10-28 16:03 ` bug#47584: [DRAFT PATCH v2 0/4] Fix race condition in mkdir-p/perms Maxime Devos
2022-10-28 16:04 ` bug#47584: [PATCH 1/3] guile-next: Update to 3.0.8-793fb46 Maxime Devos
2022-10-28 16:04 ` bug#47584: [PATCH 2/3] WIP gnu: Change the Guile used for activation to one that has 'openat' Maxime Devos
2022-10-28 16:04 ` bug#47584: [PATCH 3/3] activation: Fix TOCTTOU in mkdir-p/perms Maxime Devos
2022-10-28 16:05 ` bug#47584: [PATCH 1/3] guile-next: Update to 3.0.8-793fb46 Maxime Devos
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