Bug in busybox base applet?

Vladimir N. Oleynik dzo at simtreas.ru
Thu Sep 1 09:52:41 UTC 2005


Denis,

> ?! where did I run a program from current dir? there is "ls", not "./ls".
> 
> My example may happen as follows:
> 
> /bin/ls -> /bin/busybox

But only root can make this symlink and must check before.
Else you can place /bin/ls to "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda" ;-)

> I like Dirk Clemens <develop at cle-mens.de> idea of restricting "busybox applet [args]"
> to "busybox_with_any_suffix" only.

Hmm.
If this checking now run,
to mean the "busybox", instead of any other utility works.
In other words - always true ;-)


PS: Whether wish to write privately on russian for acceleration of discussion?


--w
vodz



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