bugtraq - Re: Microsoft Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000 file management security issues

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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:21:51 +0000
From: Richard Huxton <dev@...honet.com>
To: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...re.org>
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000 file management security
 issues

Steven M. Christey wrote:
> 3APA3A said:
> 
>> I. There is no symlinks under Windows. Symlink attacks are not
>> possible.

There's something similar on NTFS:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Junction.mspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

Only reason I know is because I remember the Win32 porters of PostgreSQL 
looking around for symlinks on Windows.

-- 
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd