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RE: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: clean up some cacherev mess
From: |
Derek Zhou |
Subject: |
RE: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: clean up some cacherev mess |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:30:34 -0800 |
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>
> I think my keyword here was `something like'. /tmp would be hardcoded
> so such things cannot happen, and not links to be followed, etc etc
> etc.
>
Probably not going to happen. I read somewhere that if users are allowed
to reap /tmp anytime at will, a malicious user can exploit some race
condition in tmp file creation to do privilege escalation.
Derek