Security issue in Terminal

Guido Berhoerster gber at opensuse.org
Fri Mar 9 12:46:21 CET 2012


* Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists at yahoo.co.uk> [2012-03-08 21:13]:
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 20:13:52 +0100
> Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> 
> > It is unlinked before use and thus only accessible until the last
> > file descriptor is closed.
> 
> Or those sectors are re-allocated without writing to them by an
> attackers script/program creating a new file with the old data and world
> readable permissions. It's possible that the code to do that needed

Well, you can keep repeating that but it still doesn't make any sense.
-- 
Guido Berhoerster


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