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Re: [Full-disclosure] Symlink vulnerabilities
- To: Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Symlink vulnerabilities
- From: Andrew Farmer <andfarm@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:31:12 -0700
On 2011-10-27, at 07:48, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> The other thing that people need to remember is that there's no race condition
> that's so small that you can't hit it. If there's a race condition, it *can*
> be won.
And systems like inotify make filesystem races trivial to win. I wouldn't be
surprised if you could win this particular race reliably by watching for the
files bzexe drops and acting immediately when they show up.
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