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Stephen Harris

Re: /proc filesystem allows bypassing directory permissions on Linux

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:14:36PM -0400, Stephen Harris wrote:

||  User1 creates file with permissions 0644
||                      User2 opens file for read access on file descriptor 4
||  User1 chmod's directory to 0700
||  User1 chmod's file to 0666
||  User1 verifies no hard links to file
||                      User2 can not open the file for read or write access
||                      User2 can not write to file descriptor 4
||                      User2 _can_ write to /proc/$$/fd/4

Re: /proc filesystem allows bypassing directory permissions on Linux

On 27.10.2009 14:04, Vincent Zweije wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:14:36PM -0400, Stephen Harris wrote:
>
> ||  User1 creates file with permissions 0644
> ||                      User2 opens file for read access on file descriptor 4
> ||  User1 chmod's directory to 0700
> ||  User1 chmod's file to 0666
> ||  User1 verifies no hard links to file
> ||                      User2 can not open the file for read or write access
> ||                      User2 can not write to file descriptor 4



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