bugtraq - RE: Symlink Vulnerability in GNU libtool <1.5.2

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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:05:28 +0100
From: "Muders, Thomas" <muders@...-mainz.de>
To: <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Cc: bug-libtool@....org,
	Stefan Nordhausen <deletethis.nordhaus@...ormatik.hu-berlin.de>
Subject: RE: Symlink Vulnerability in GNU libtool <1.5.2


Hello,

> Hm, interesting. That is the exact same bug that I found. As for the
> race with chmod: Do you know of a really good way to exploit 
> this one? I
> can only think of pretty harmless things to do with this. You 
> could fix
> this by using something like:
> 
> (umask 077 && mkdir $tmpdir) || exit 1
> 

there is an option "-m" for mkdir which sets the mode on creation. That makes sense, anyway, as the syscall for mkdir has a "mode" argument, too.

Or are there portability issues with that one?

regards,
	Thomas

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