Re: Security hole in Confixx backup script

[Dirk Pirschel <dirk () pirschel de>]

Hi,

* Dirk Pirschel wrote on Tue, 10 Aug 2004 at 12:42 +0200:

> The race condition between "tar xzf" and "chmod -R" can be won, if there
> are many files or simply one big file in the archives.  A quick "mv"
> should prevent the suid programm from beeing chown()ed.

There is no race condition at all.  We can simply use a symlink, which
is only followed by "cd; tar".  (Remember that tar gets executed with a
relative path to ../restore/<tarfile>, but this is no problem ;-). chown
is called with an absolute path and changes the UID of the link.

-Dirk

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