Re: X11R6 NetBSD Security Problem

[kvajk () RICOCHET NET (Kevin Vajk)]

This patch looks pretty good.  (Much better than the current situatiuon!!!)

A few comments:

On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> +    if (errno == EEXIST) {
> +     if (stat(path, &buf) != 0) {

This should be lstat().

> +     if (S_ISDIR(buf.st_mode) && ((buf.st_mode & ~S_IFMT) == mode)) {
> +         return 0;
> +     }
> +    }

I think you'll want to check the owner of the directory, too.

- Kevin Vajk
  <kvajk () ricochet net>