Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:48:28 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E9tur_Ingi_Egilsson?= <petur@petur.eu> To: Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File descriptors Message-ID: <000A44DA-4A24-48C8-A4B2-EE9473A03C38@petur.eu> In-Reply-To: <5169F961.7030407@erdgeist.org> References: <B4285FA7-E3EF-4639-BFC0-9BEA7881A5CB@petur.eu> <5169F961.7030407@erdgeist.org>
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The general understanding by users, be it right or wrong, is that whenever a files' permission is changed, then the effect is immediate everywhere in the system. This wrong metal model _could_ result in malicious access to a file. I merely wanted to bring the issue to your attention. - pétur On 14/04/2013, at 02:33, Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org> wrote: > On 13.04.13 20:29, Pétur Ingi Egilsson wrote: > >> I noticed that if I execute the following code, then the program is >> able to read the file even if the files' permissions are changed around >> the /mark/ section in such a way that the UID under which the program is >> running should not have any permission to read the file. >> >> This is not a desirable behaviour. >> How can I prevent this behaviour on my system? > > Pétur, > > you may have a wrong understanding of what the difference between a file > and its names is. The moment you open a file, the system call checks the > permissions and if you are allowed to read the file, returns another > name for your file, the fd. I am aware of the difference. > > If you change permissions on the file name in the file system, your file > descriptor is not affected. The overhead for chasing changes in your > directory structure (and nothing else is changing permissions) on every > read() system call would just not be bearable. Understood. > > You can even delete the file from the file system and still reference > the content by your descriptor. Only when the last name of your file is > gone (i.e. you fclose your descriptor) the file is actually removed from > the file system > >> fd = fopen(argv[2], "r"); > > I am pretty sure, this should rather read argv[1] Indeed. > > erdgeisthelp
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