full-disclosure - Re: Symlink vulnerabilities

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Message-ID: <4EA25356.4080501@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:23:34 -0400
From: Byron Sonne <byron.sonne@...il.com>
To: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@...edump.cx>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Symlink vulnerabilities

> If you are in charge of a distro, it would not hurt to nuke it
> altogether and change all packages in your control to use per-user
> $TMPDIR. Some third-party stuff will break - but it breaks every now
> and then anyway.

Excellent suggestion, and you've piqued my curiosity. What distros exist
that implement tmp dirs in such a way? I haven't come across any, and
the more I think about it, the more I wish that this is something I
would see.

If you had your way, would you see it implemented as /tmp/<USER>
/<USER>/tmp, or some other way?

Cheers,
B

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