Bugtraq: Re: /proc filesystem allows bypassing directory permissions on

[Gabor Gombas <gombasg () sztaki hu>]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 10:17:13AM +1100, psz () maths usyd edu au wrote:

> But, mount requires root (and root can do anything, including shooting
> himself in the foot).
Irrelevant. The statement was that if /proc is not mounted, then the
link count tells if there are other ways to access the inode besides the
path you have used to access it. I showed you that this statement is
false.

Gabor

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