On 08/07/2013 16:06, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Monday 08 July 2013 14:36:24 Jérémy Lal wrote: >> I still do not understand if this is really a security issue. >> IMO if a program on your system does that, the whole system is compromised, >> you can't really be hardening any software against it. > > A symlink attack is done by a user of a system against another user on the > same system. This is not a worry on your laptop, but may be an issue on a > bigger server in a data center
Thank you for the explanation. Somehow I understood it was important and forwarded the bug upstream. Jérémy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
