On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 05:42:12PM -0800, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What sort of attack would this enable? > > > > Wait... any unprivileged process can create sockets in the abstract > > namespace? Uh-oh. > > Any unprivileged process can prevent you from running X on a given > display by using up the socket name that X wants to use. This is a > textbook DOS scenario. If we have private /tmp this problem would go away. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
