Re: /proc filesystem allows bypassing directory permissions on Linux

[Pavel Kankovsky <peak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Pavel Kankovsky wrote:

> pavel might have detected this attack if he checked the number of
> hardlinks on "unwritable_file"  between the chmod's. But he did not
> check that.

I stand corrected. He did it--in a comment:

> # check link count on unwritable_file. We would not want someone 
> # to have a hard link to work around our permissions, would we?

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