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bug#35654: We've found a vulnerability of gnu chown, please check it and


From: st0n3 ss
Subject: bug#35654: We've found a vulnerability of gnu chown, please check it and request a cve id for us.
Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 08:28:47 +0800

I understand what you mean.
The manual tell me -h "affect symbolic links instead of any referenced
file", now you say A/B/C is not a symbolic link if B is a symbolic.
It's confusing, right?

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> 于2019年5月10日周五 上午4:01写道:

> I don't see any vulnerability here. The -h option of 'chown -h A/B/C'
> does not affect whether A and A/B are followed if they are symbolic
> links: they are always followed, regardless of whether the -h option is
> specified. The -h option affects only whether A/B/C is followed if A/B/C
> is a symbolic link. This is a well-known property of symbolic links.
>


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