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From: Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 25611@debbugs.gnu.org, ohwoeowho@gmail.com
Subject: bug#25611: 26.0.50; dired-do-compress unpacks .tgz files
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2017 16:01:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6062.1488672111@alto> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Feb 2017 12:42:18 -0500." <hslgtnjhmt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

Glenn Morris wrote:

> Looks like this was added in https://debbugs.gnu.org/20384#11 ?
> I've cc'd the author of that change.

Thanks.

It occurs to me that this could be considered a security vulnerability.
If the .tgz file is (unintentionally) unpacked in $HOME and contains a
.ssh/authorized_keys, that could give an attacker access to the victim's
account.

mike





  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-05  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-03  3:50 bug#25611: 26.0.50; dired-do-compress unpacks .tgz files Mike Kupfer
2017-02-03 17:42 ` Glenn Morris
2017-03-05  0:01   ` Mike Kupfer [this message]
2017-03-06 10:53     ` Oleh Krehel
2017-03-06 17:28       ` Mike Kupfer
2017-03-06 17:51     ` Glenn Morris
2017-03-06 18:42       ` Mike Kupfer
2017-03-06 19:03         ` Mike Kupfer
2018-11-21 18:13           ` Glenn Morris

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