From: Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>
To: Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu>
Cc: 25611@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25611: 26.0.50; dired-do-compress unpacks .tgz files
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 11:53:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA01p3o=skAf=SNCtykM6XWrXvpEVoR9yQaHEkCTMsso9q5hbA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6062.1488672111@alto>
Hi Mike,
> 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.
The file is uncompressed into a directory with the same name. So the
file would have to be ~/.ssh.tar.gz. If a user presses "Z" on that
file, it's pretty clear what will happen, same as with "C" on e.g. an
`authorized_keys' file somewhere.
regards,
Oleh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-06 10:53 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
2017-03-06 10:53 ` Oleh Krehel [this message]
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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