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Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 13:39:33 +0400
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: /tmp fs type
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 13:15 +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> While we have an option to setup /tmp as tmpfs, we probably should
> support bind mounts for /tmp (and /home?) to deny creating links to sxid
> binaries:
Well, not only sxid binaries. sxid binaries linking is a dangerous
attack vector, but it's not the only one.
If we care about sxid binaries, we can create bind mounts for
/{usr/,}{s,}bin/ as user writable directories may contain /var/tmp/,
probably something in /var/spool/.
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Vasiliy Kulikov
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