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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:18:27 -0500
From: Eitan Adler <lists@...anadler.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
Subject: Re: Untrusted fs and invalid filenames

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com> wrote:
> This is a resumption of the subject "Physical access vulnerabilities and
> auto-mounting" brought by Dan Rosenberg.  The previous discussion was
> about possible attacks the kernel, now I'd like to talk about attacks
> userland programs.
>

http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html and
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html are relevant
here.




-- 
Eitan Adler

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