fs.lchmod opens file with O_WRONLY unnecessarily, fails on directories and non-writable files
#23.736 aperta il 18 ott 2018
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- Version: v10.12.0
- Platform: Darwin geegaw.local 18.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 18.0.0: Wed Aug 22 20:13:40 PDT 2018; root:xnu-4903.201.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
- Subsystem: fs
https://github.com/isaacs/chmodr/pull/20
Node's fs.lchmod implementation opens the file in write-only mode. (On Darwin, at least.)
This is unnecessary, and fails for read-only files.
Additionally, this approach (open and then use fchmod) fails for directories. Is there a reason why native lchmod isn't being used? Systems that have O_SYMLINK also have lchmod(3), don't they?
This is important because lchmod is the only way to avoid a (minor) security vulnerability when doing recursive mode setting on directories. If we have to restrict the use of lchmod to only symlinks, then we're back in TOCTOU territory.