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

Posted Feb 17, 2022 14:43 UTC (Thu) by Karellen (subscriber, #67644)
In reply to: The long road to a fix for CVE-2021-20316 by mathstuf
Parent article: The long road to a fix for CVE-2021-20316

I think the parent commenter was referring to the case where you have a symlink somewhere pointing to /foo/bar, and /foo/bar is replaced through its canonical path, rather than through the symlink. In that case, the symlink (wherever it is) remains pointing at the new /foo/bar