What prevents an attack on Postfix through its named pipes?
- by Met?Ed
What prevents an attack on Postfix through its named pipes by writing bogus data to them? I see on my system that they permit write access to other. I wonder if that opens Postfix to DoS or some other form of attack.
prw--w--w- 1 postfix postdrop 0 Nov 28 21:13 /var/spool/postfix/public/pickup
prw--w--w- 1 postfix postdrop 0 Nov 28 21:13 /var/spool/postfix/public/qmgr
I reviewed the pickup(8) man page, and searched here and elsewhere, but failed to turn up any answers.