Control: tags -1 + patch
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:31:52PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Lintian has a tag:
>
> Tag: symlink-has-too-many-up-segments
> Severity: serious
> Certainty: certain
> Ref: policy 10.5
> Info: The symlink references a directory beyond the root directory "/".
>
> for symlinks that contain so many ../ segments that they traverse above
> the root of the file system. This tag is currently used by ftpmaster to
> reject uploads, but this behavior is not explicitly prohibited by Policy
> (although it violates both shoulds in 10.5).
Here is a patch:
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 6eac491..a582f60 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -8892,6 +8892,7 @@ fname () {
would point to <file>/srv/run</file> rather than the intended
target.
</footnote>
+ Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.
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