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Stefan Hajnoczi authored
World-writeable directories have security issues. Avoid showing them in
the documentation since someone might accidentally use them in
situations where they are insecure.

There tend to be 3 security problems:
1. Denial of service. An adversary may be able to create the file
   beforehand, consume all space/inodes, etc to sabotage us.
2. Impersonation. An adversary may be able to create a listen socket and
   accept incoming connections that were meant for us.
3. Unauthenticated client access. An adversary may be able to connect to
   us if we did not set the uid/gid and permissions correctly.

These can be prevented or mitigated with private /tmp, carefully setting
the umask, etc but that requires special action and does not apply to
all situations. Just avoid using /tmp in examples.

Reported-by: default avatarRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Reported-by: default avatarDaniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210301172728.135331-3-stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDaniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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