[SMB3POSIX] File attributes

Ralph Boehme slow at samba.org
Tue Nov 14 16:44:57 UTC 2023


On 11/14/23 17:22, Tom Talpey wrote:
> But, does it need to be exposed to remote access? It would seem to be an
> admin function, most appropriate to apply via the server-local API.
> 
> So to flip the question, does "chattr -i" (or any of the zillion others)
> expose any new vulnerability if remote? Some of them look fairly juicy
> targets for ransomware infiltration.

there seems to be a working local privilege system associated with the 
attributes. If this was flawed there'd already be a serious problem with 
local access, so I don't think remote access changes the big picture, 
does it?

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