On Dec 9, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Dan Langille wrote: > "The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian > packages" > > I heard about the first URL, which leads to the other two: > > > http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?execution=e4s1 > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00347.html > http://uvw.ru/report.sid.txt > > Short version: It's a packaging problem, not a Bacula problem but I > have not confirmed this.
It's the same problem that's existed forever on Unix systems. Basically, if you write a file into /tmp, well, anyone can write into / tmp, so if they get there first and create a symlink using the filename you're going to open and write, then you're writing to something they control. Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
