Re: O_NOLINK for open()

From: Bodo Eggert
Date: Fri Sep 14 2007 - 13:26:52 EST


On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Bodo Eggert <7eggert@xxxxxx> writes:

> > ~/tmp > cp /bin/sleep .
> > ~/tmp > chmod u+s sleep
> > ~/tmp > ./sleep 2147483647 &
> > [1] 2823
> > ~/tmp > strace -p 2823
> > Process 2823 attached - interrupt to quit
> > setup(
>
> You didn't change the owner, so this is not a setuid execution.

I expected that, but I wanted to be sure before telling bull****.
Besides that, if the suid program was owned by the suid-to user,
that user could modify the binary in order to prepare a future attack.
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