Re: [security] Race condition in udev

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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:24, Florian Zumbiehl<florz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> reading some of the source of udev, I noticed what I would suspect to be a
> race condition with security implications, namely that device nodes
> are first mknod()/chmod()ed with the permission mask that they're supposed
> to have at the end, but potentially at this point applying to the
> wrong owner and group, before then being chown()ed to the correct
> owner and group.

The device node is owned by root, what's the problem here?

Thanks,
Kay
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