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

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Wed Mar 20 13:04:52 UTC 2013


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On 03/15/2013 11:11 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 03/15/2013 10:52 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
>> I agree that it doesn't really need a feature page, but IMHO it should be
>> in the release notes (this is something that could break existing 
>> programs).
> Here you go
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Security_Beat
> 
> Rahul
I a not sure private tmp for allowed would solve this problem,  since you
could still attempt to trick a setuid app to read a link.
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