bugtraq - Re: /proc filesystem allows bypassing directory permissions on

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:29:23 +0100 (CET)
From: Pavel Kankovsky <peak@...o.troja.mff.cuni.cz>
To: mrex@....com
Cc: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@...aki.hu>, <pavel@....cz>, <jim@...n.com>,
	<marco@....nl>, <dan@...htwave.net.ru>, <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: /proc filesystem allows bypassing directory permissions on

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Martin Rex wrote:

> I couldn't find anything in the the POSIX 1003.1-2004 Online Edition
> that _requires_ this to fail:

It is required to do nothing:

F_SETFL
    Set the file status flags, defined in <fcntl.h>, for the file 
description associated with fildes from the corresponding bits in the 
third argument, arg, taken as type int. Bits corresponding to the file 
access mode and the file creation flags, as defined in <fcntl.h>, that are 
set in arg shall be ignored. If any bits in arg other than those mentioned 
here are changed by the application, the result is unspecified.

(And curmode &= ~O_RDONLY is not correct, see the rationale for 
open().)

-- 
Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak                          / Jeremiah 9:21        \
"For death is come up into our MS Windows(tm)..." \ 21st century edition /