wineserver socket file and DOS attacks

[Francois Gouget]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Steven Elliott wrote:

> I have some concerns about the location of the socket file that
> wineserver uses.  Since by default the current location is in /tmp my
> concern is that anyone can stop anyone else from using wine just by
> creating a directory named /tmp/.wine-500.  
[...]

In /tmp I see the following:

   .X0-lock
   .X11-unix/
   fgouget/
   gconfd-fgouget/
   vmware-fgouget/
   xmms_fgouget.0

So it seems like if there is a malicious user Wine will not be the only 
application that will be affected. So the question is: are all these 
apps susceptible to DoS or do they avoid DoS somehow? And if they 
prevent DoS, how and is that technique applicable to Wine?


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Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr>              http://fgouget.free.fr/
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