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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:06:25 +0100
From: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@...aki.hu>
To: psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au
Cc: mrex@....com, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, dan@...htwave.net.ru,
	jim@...n.com, marco@....nl, pavel@....cz
Subject: Re: /proc filesystem allows bypassing directory permissions on

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 10:17:13AM +1100, psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au wrote:

> But, mount requires root (and root can do anything, including shooting
> himself in the foot).

Irrelevant. The statement was that if /proc is not mounted, then the
link count tells if there are other ways to access the inode besides the
path you have used to access it. I showed you that this statement is
false.

Gabor

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