find: Security Summary

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1 11.5 Summary
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1 Where untrusted parties can create files on the system, or affect the
1 names of files that are created, all uses for 'find', 'locate' and
1 'xargs' have known security problems except the following:
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1 Informational use only
1      Uses where the programs are used to prepare lists of file names
1      upon which no further action will ever be taken.
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1 '-delete'
1      Use of the '-delete' action with 'find' to delete files which meet
1      specified criteria
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1 '-execdir'
1      Use of the '-execdir' action with 'find' where the 'PATH'
1      environment variable contains directories which contain only
1      trusted programs.
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