From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:54:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283411398 15639 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2010 07:09:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 07:09:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6953@debbugs.gnu.org, markd@soe.ucsc.edu To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 02 09:09:56 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Or3vo-0004DJ-40 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:09:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41184 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Or3vn-0000Pv-Fn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:09:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49380 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Or3vg-0000Pi-U1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:09:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Or3vf-0002LI-V1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:09:48 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:48135) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Or3vf-0002LC-TR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:09:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Or3fR-0000DM-MN; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:53:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:53:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6953 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6953-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6953.1283410360818 (code B ref 6953); Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:53:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6953) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Sep 2010 06:52:40 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Or3f5-0000D9-Kc for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:52:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Or3f3-0000D3-Mf for 6953@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:52:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Or3gf-0008W5-TU; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:54:18 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:38:42 -0400) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:53:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:39895 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:38:42 -0400 > Cc: 6953@debbugs.gnu.org > > A partial solution for the first problem is simple (below). Note that this partial solution will do nothing on MS-Windows. (There's currently no infrastructure in Emacs to create _really_ private files and directories on MS-Windows, even on filesystems that support file security.)