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

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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:14:03 -0600
From: Joel Maslak <jmaslak@...elope.net>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc: "bugtraq@...urityfocus.com" <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: /proc filesystem allows bypassing directory permissions on Linux

On Oct 23, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:

> Demonstrate how to get access to the file with /proc unmounted and you
> have a point. Demonstrate how to get access on anything else then
> Linux and you have a point. Otherwise there's a security hole.

If the directory is mounted via NFS or is exported there are several  
ways...so software written to assume directory permissions are  
sufficent to protect users from other unpriveliged users is broken in  
general. Even if it is usually secure enough on non-Linux. It is not  
always.