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From 90eb06e8c7da2c10eeccc4915bca577304785664 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:39:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] util: never follow symlinks in rm_rf_children()

The function checks if the entry is a directory before recursing, but
there is a window between the check and the open, during which the
directory could be replaced with a symlink.

CVE-2012-1174
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803358
(cherry picked from commit 5ebff5337594d690b322078c512eb222d34aaa82)
---
 src/util.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/util.c b/src/util.c
index a488289..6a2c61f 100644
--- a/src/util.c
+++ b/src/util.c
@@ -3483,7 +3483,8 @@ static int rm_rf_children(int fd, bool only_dirs, bool honour_sticky) {
                 if (is_dir) {
                         int subdir_fd;
 
-                        if ((subdir_fd = openat(fd, de->d_name, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC)) < 0) {
+                        subdir_fd = openat(fd, de->d_name, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC|O_NOFOLLOW);
+                        if (subdir_fd < 0) {
                                 if (ret == 0 && errno != ENOENT)
                                         ret = -errno;
                                 continue;