The long road to a fix for CVE-2021-20316

Posted Feb 11, 2022 9:43 UTC (Fri) by dullfire (guest, #111432)
In reply to: The long road to a fix for CVE-2021-20316 by calumapplepie
Parent article: The long road to a fix for CVE-2021-20316

The addition of such a flag, and then telling people to use it as a fix for TOCTOU races with symlinks would effectively be telling them to drop support for symlinks in those programs.

Which would be a massive regression.