bugtraq - race condition in .net core System.IO.Directory.Delete allowing deletion of entire drives

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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:30:22 -0700
From: Joshua Hudson <joshudson@...il.com>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: race condition in .net core System.IO.Directory.Delete allowing
 deletion of entire drives

Here's a link to the original reporting of this class of bug:
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2000/May/67

In looking for how to deal with this problem on Windows, I discovered
that .net core has
essentially the same security bug.

That file system node might have been a directory when FindNextFile
returned it, but it's a symlink to c:\users now. Goodbye half your
data (on average) before hitting a locked file.

https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/32082

Microsoft does not want to believe this is a security bug. I do not
know what to do.