Linux Kernel: TOCTOU in Exec System | …I am sure that there was a vulnerability of this exact kind in Unix circa 1988 +/- 4yrs

I’m pretty sure there was a direct one on the inode permissions, and possibly a second one involving symlinks. Every bug has its day again and again and again.

There is a Time-of-Check / Time-of-Use issue in the Linux kernel in the exec system calls. The executability permissions are checked at a different time than the set-user-ID bit is applied. This could lead to privilege escalation.

https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-c45w-xwww-rfgg

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