On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie(a)codewiz.org> wrote:
What sort of attack would this enable?
Wait... any unprivileged process can create sockets in the abstract
namespace? Uh-oh.
Any unprivileged process can prevent you from running X on a given
display by using up the socket name that X wants to use. This is a
textbook DOS scenario.