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Vinod K V commented on MAPREDUCE-1991:
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bq. Is someone already working on a patch to remove the -l option, or should I 
grab this jira?
Please take this up, Todd. I can help with review/commit. Thanks!

> taskcontroller allows stealing permissions on any local file
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>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-1991
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1991
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: task-controller
>    Affects Versions: 0.21.0, 0.22.0
>            Reporter: Todd Lipcon
>            Priority: Blocker
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> The linux task-controller setuid binary allows a malicious user to chmod any 
> file on the system to 644 (and as a side effect appends some junk to the end)

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