Back in the day you could write a core dump through a symlink. In conjunction with other bugs this made a very exploitable privilege escalation. You’d think mo

Back in the day you could write a core dump through a symlink. In conjunction with other bugs this made a very exploitable privilege escalation. You’d think modern tooling would know better, but no. Chef can happily write templates through a symlink, and this will, bizarrely, even be the default in future.