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From: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Potential security weakness in Guix services
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:54:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blcr8wzk.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9b66dm1.fsf@gnu.org>

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> I think it’s a good endeavor, but it’s a longer-term one since it’ll
> take some time before this new version is in use by all the Guix code.
>
> The difficulty in designing such an interface is that the Scheme API is
> more about ports than it’s about file names and file descriptors.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ludo’.

In the long run, that might end up being safer.
In the meanwhile, we suffer the world of ACLs. ;)

(From my read, this is practically exactly the scenario from Norm
Hardy's original Confused Deputy paper...)


      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-10 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-28 21:53 Potential security weakness in Guix services Leo Famulari
2021-01-29 13:33 ` Maxime Devos
2021-01-29 15:25   ` Maxime Devos
2021-02-01 15:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-02-01 15:47   ` Julien Lepiller
2021-02-01 16:19     ` Maxime Devos
2021-02-02 13:07       ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-02-02 13:38         ` Maxime Devos
2021-02-02 15:30           ` Maxime Devos
2021-02-05  9:57           ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-02-05 12:20             ` Maxime Devos
2021-02-05 14:16               ` Maxime Devos
2021-02-06 21:28                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-02-06 22:01                   ` Maxime Devos
2021-02-10 20:45                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-02-06 21:26               ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-02-14 12:29                 ` TOCTTOU race (was: Potential security weakness in Guix services) Maxime Devos
2021-02-14 17:19                   ` Bengt Richter
2021-02-18 17:54                   ` TOCTTOU race Ludovic Courtès
2021-02-19 18:01                     ` Maxime Devos
2021-02-22  8:54                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-02-22 19:13                         ` Maxime Devos
2021-02-23 15:30                           ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-02-27  7:41                             ` Maxime Devos
2021-03-10 10:07                               ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-02-10 20:54             ` Christopher Lemmer Webber [this message]

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