Re: /proc filesystem allows bypassing directory permissions on Linux

[Marco Verschuur <marco () osp nl>]

Why not?!?
File permissions allow everybody write access to the file.

The path via /proc to the file has been created when the initial path  
via /tmp was wide open.
Closing the initial path via /tmp has no effect on the /proc path

And due to the actual file permissions the read-only fd can easily  
changed to read-write.

        Marco

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On 26 okt 2009, at 22:58, psz () maths usyd edu au wrote:

> Dear Casper and Dan,
>
> > If you can control<pid>, then clearly you have access the file anyway
> > simply by controlling it using a debugger.
>
> Sorry, but no. The "attacker" has the file opened O_RDONLY, and cannot
> "upgrade" that to O_RDWR.
>
> Cheers, Paul
>
> Paul Szabo   psz () maths usyd edu au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
> School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney     
> Australia