From: Enrico Scholz (enrico.scholz_at_sigma-chemnitz.de)
Date: Tue 09 Aug 2005 - 08:20:15 BST
eyck_at_ghost.anime.pl ("Dariush Pietrzak,,,") writes:
>> legacy configuration does not have a big future and *would*
>> need security fixes first, this has a very low priority.
> What security fixes?
Oh... where shall I begin? Basically, the filesystem operations
are full of races and contain enough opportunities for symlink
attacks. Fixes would need the redesign of large parts of the
legacy tools. The non-legacy part of util-vserver is the result of
this redesign and I am sure that symlink attacks are impossible
and races were eliminitated there ;)
(The 'initpost' script of RH style vservers is an exception...)
Enrico
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