Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 20:06 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > Make that setuid root or just create log file owned by you and make root
> > run it. Should be innocent enough, right?
> >
> > Well, except that you can revoke the log file before the shadow file is
> > opened, at which point open() probably reuses the fd and the program
> > conveniently logs to /etc/shadow.
> No, the fd is leaked on purpose to avoid recycling. See revoke_fds for
> details.
Doesn't that violate a POSIX guarantee that the lowest unused fd is
returned? If the leakage lasts "long enough", this gives an opportunity of
a nice DoS by using up fds...
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