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- noun computing, Unix A
file ordirectory whose name begins with adot (period or full stop), typically hidden from view.
Etymologies
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Examples
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If an application I install decides to dump a large cache inside a dotfile in my home directory, my backups suddenly start ballooning.
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It would be really nice if you would use the XDG Base Directory Specification1 instead of yet another dotfile directly in $HOME… the specification is getting more and more common as it gets adopted by more and more applications and distros.
Miriam Ruiz 2007
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Debian Linux Security Advisory 2085-1 - It was discovered that in lftp, a command-line HTTP/FTP client, there is no proper validation of the filename provided by the server through the Content-Disposition header; attackers can use this flaw by suggesting a filename they wish to overwrite on the client machine, and then possibly execute arbitrary code (for instance if the attacker elects to write a dotfile in a home directory).
Hack In The Box 2010
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Debian Linux Security Advisory 2085-1 - It was discovered that in lftp, a command-line HTTP/FTP client, there is no proper validation of the filename provided by the server through the Content-Disposition header; attackers can use this flaw by suggesting a filename they wish to overwrite on the client machine, and then possibly execute arbitrary code (for instance if the attacker elects to write a dotfile in a home directory).
Hack In The Box 2010
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Debian Linux Security Advisory 2085-1 - It was discovered that in lftp, a command-line HTTP/FTP client, there is no proper validation of the filename provided by the server through the Content-Disposition header; attackers can use this flaw by suggesting a filename they wish to overwrite on the client machine, and then possibly execute arbitrary code (for instance if the attacker elects to write a dotfile in a home directory).
Hack In The Box 2010
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Debian Linux Security Advisory 2085-1 - It was discovered that in lftp, a command-line HTTP/FTP client, there is no proper validation of the filename provided by the server through the Content-Disposition header; attackers can use this flaw by suggesting a filename they wish to overwrite on the client machine, and then possibly execute arbitrary code (for instance if the attacker elects to write a dotfile in a home directory).
Hack In The Box 2010
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Debian Linux Security Advisory 2085-1 - It was discovered that in lftp, a command-line HTTP/FTP client, there is no proper validation of the filename provided by the server through the Content-Disposition header; attackers can use this flaw by suggesting a filename they wish to overwrite on the client machine, and then possibly execute arbitrary code (for instance if the attacker elects to write a dotfile in a home directory).
Hack In The Box 2010
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Debian Linux Security Advisory 2085-1 - It was discovered that in lftp, a command-line HTTP/FTP client, there is no proper validation of the filename provided by the server through the Content-Disposition header; attackers can use this flaw by suggesting a filename they wish to overwrite on the client machine, and then possibly execute arbitrary code (for instance if the attacker elects to write a dotfile in a home directory).
Hack In The Box 2010
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Debian Linux Security Advisory 2085-1 - It was discovered that in lftp, a command-line HTTP/FTP client, there is no proper validation of the filename provided by the server through the Content-Disposition header; attackers can use this flaw by suggesting a filename they wish to overwrite on the client machine, and then possibly execute arbitrary code (for instance if the attacker elects to write a dotfile in a home directory).
Hack In The Box 2010
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Debian Linux Security Advisory 2085-1 - It was discovered that in lftp, a command-line HTTP/FTP client, there is no proper validation of the filename provided by the server through the Content-Disposition header; attackers can use this flaw by suggesting a filename they wish to overwrite on the client machine, and then possibly execute arbitrary code (for instance if the attacker elects to write a dotfile in a home directory).
Hack In The Box 2010
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