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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:14:36 +0100
From: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

Dan Rosenberg wrote:
> There are a few possible options   We could patch glibc to try to
> raise the rlimit in addmntent(). [...]

Citing our glibc maintainer Petr Baudis via Bugzilla:

| I have been thinking about it and I'm not at all sure the proposed solution
| makes sense. First, this may also concern the obscure interfaces like
| putspent() (not sure if anyone uses these, moreover in security relevant
| contexts). Second, messing with RLIMIT_FSIZE within library routine is just
| evil. The caller may be multi-threaded or just do something else between
| setpwent() and endpwent() too and RLIMIT_FSIZE is just evil. All setuid
| programs must sanitize things like this, on their own terms.

cu
Ludwig

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