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Bugtraq archives for 4th quarter (Oct-Dec) 1998: Re: Possible DoS in rsh

Re: Possible DoS in rsh

Henrik Nordstrom (hnoHEM.PASSAGEN.SE)
Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:14:55 +0200

Nick Andrew wrote:

> Programs (esp. daemons) which run as root should refuse to read
> control files which are symlinks (and home directories should not
> be on the same partition as /dev!).

Should this be worded: Any service daemons should refuse to read
files which are not files (symlinks, device files, pipes and other
non-disk-file types) or not owned by the right user with proper
permissions.

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Henrik Nordström