Is there a reason we do not turn on the file system hardlink/symlink protection in Rawhide?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sun Mar 17 18:31:43 UTC 2013


John Reiser wrote:
> It seems to me that the "private /tmp" feature of recent Fedora systems
> has removed a large percentage of the potential vulnerabilities here.
> If you cannot see anybody else's /tmp then you cannot create
> vulnerabilities in /tmp for them, and they cannot create vulnerabilities
> in /tmp for you.

Unfortunately, private /tmp is only enabled by default in Fedora for select 
services and not for users, mainly because some programs (ab)use /tmp to do 
sockets to communicate between users.

        Kevin Kofler



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