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Diffstat (limited to 'apt-pkg')
| -rw-r--r-- | apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc index 2b7e25080..a5976cf3a 100644 --- a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc +++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc @@ -138,7 +138,9 @@ bool CopyFile(FileFd &From,FileFd &To) close at some time. */ int GetLock(string File,bool Errors) { - int FD = open(File.c_str(),O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC,0640); + // GetLock() is used in aptitude on directories with public-write access + // Use O_NOFOLLOW here to prevent symlink traversal attacks + int FD = open(File.c_str(),O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_NOFOLLOW,0640); if (FD < 0) { // Read only .. cant have locking problems there. |