"owning" a symlink?
"owning" a symlink?
Posted Feb 21, 2022 10:14 UTC (Mon) by kronat (subscriber, #117266)In reply to: Local root vulnerability in snap-confine by epa
Parent article: Local root vulnerability in snap-confine
> The legitimate uses of symlinks are mostly static [...]
Based on the above, isn't it possible to "block" any modification to the symlink until the application(s) that "locked" the symlink by opening it for reading is (are) done (doing a close on it)?
Based on the above, isn't it possible to "block" any modification to the symlink until the application(s) that "locked" the symlink by opening it for reading is (are) done (doing a close on it)?