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bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files |
Date: |
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:09:47 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> The time window during which the access rights are too loose.
> Do you mean changing Fcopy_file to optionally not copy the source file
> permission bits to the output file?
Something like that.
> Maybe that's better, but it would need yet another optional argument
> for copy-file, which would probably not see much use outside of
> this context.
Adding yet-another-arg doesn't sound very appealing, indeed.
Maybe a better solution is to split copy-file into 2 functions: one that
copies the file data (into a file that's only readable by the current
process, or user) and another that copies various parts of its metadata
like timestamp, uid-gid, ... (this last function might be itself split
into various parts). So copy-file can be implemented on top of those
functions and backup can use them as well.
Stefan
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- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Glenn Morris, 2010/09/07
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Stefan Monnier, 2010/09/08
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Glenn Morris, 2010/09/08
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Stefan Monnier, 2010/09/08
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Glenn Morris, 2010/09/09
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files,
Stefan Monnier <=
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Glenn Morris, 2010/09/09
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- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Lennart Borgman, 2010/09/13
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Glenn Morris, 2010/09/21
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Chong Yidong, 2010/09/25
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Richard Stallman, 2010/09/26
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Chong Yidong, 2010/09/28
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Richard Stallman, 2010/09/29
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/29
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, markd, 2010/09/29