Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 06:31:09PM -0500, Rehm wrote: >> Package: kernel >> Severity: critical >> Justification: root security hole >> >> Extremely insecure. Apparently after having been able to do mounting >> on a diskimage disk1.img (sued to root under lightweight wm in X- xterm box) >> on a directory called ./1, >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-02-13 18:22 1 >> $ >> ->as a normal user, (and my groups command shows no respect of being >> member of root), I am able to delete directory 1, or shouldn't I? Either >> I'm very dumb, or something is terribly wrong..Any other further details I >> can provide and test- I wouldn't >> mind..Thanks for the feedback.. > > a) do you actually have something mounted on that directory at the time? > b) strace of rmdir, please
c) rights to delete are governed by the directory the thing to delete is in and not by the thing itself. The rights of '1' are irelevant if it is empty. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]