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Message-ID: <20070112211847.GA17887@brucia.ulcc.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:18:47 +0000
From: Ben Wheeler <b.wheeler@...c.ac.uk>
To: Dave Moore <dave.j.moore@...il.com>
Cc: bugtraq <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>, steven@...terwebnet.com,
dennis.jackson@...rect.co.uk
Subject: Re: slocate leaks filenames of protected directories
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:50:49PM -0600, Dave Moore wrote:
> chmod 711 dir
> sets permissions: drwx--x--x
>
> But for directories the x doesn't mean executable, it means
> searchable.
...
>
> Or am I missing something?
You're missing what "searchable" means. It means you can cd into
the directory and you can access files within the directory *if*
you know their exact name (and have appropriate perms on those files)
but you *cannot* list the directory's contents. Thus if slocate
allows you to list the contents of such a directory just by
specifying the name of the directory, or a single character of
a file within the directory, it is laxer security than the directory
permissions allow. Not the world's most pressing security problem,
but a problem nonetheless.
Ben
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