Re: [PATCH] bugs around truncate.

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:11:11 +1300


On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 09:36:37AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:

> a) open_namei() with O_CREAT, O_TRUNC but without O_NOFOLLOW is
> called in fs/binfmt_aout::119, arch/mips/kernel/irixelf.c::1200,
> arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32::109. Security hole (see
> binfmt_elf)

oops... my fault. When I updated binfmt_elf I didn't even think about
the others (because I don't use them).

-cw

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