From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:28:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <19583.19642.954872.847808@bugle.cse.ucsc.edu> <19583.53728.357608.629758@bugle.cse.ucsc.edu> <4mzkvs44no.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284010834 28260 80.91.229.12 (9 Sep 2010 05:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 05:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6953@debbugs.gnu.org, Mark Diekhans To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 09 07:40:33 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 1OtZs7-0000BT-6l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:40:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56271 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OtZs6-0002bq-B6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:40:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54904 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OtZrp-0002a4-PS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:40:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtZro-00059j-Dc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:40:13 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:41569) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtZro-00059f-BV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:40:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtZf4-00028u-Nm; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:27:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:27:02 +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=B6953.12840099818229 (code B ref 6953); Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:27:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6953) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Sep 2010 05:26:21 +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 1OtZeP-00028g-8A for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:26:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtZeN-00028Z-15 for 6953@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:26:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtZgJ-0005dk-13; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:28:19 -0400 X-Spook: event security Kennedy import Security Council Jiang X-Ran: Z$CJ.NHW%-sqW"GE6'&7x@](f%3E'ccOQR'kNA#l\DgZ1=GmBP)HGb33B_AxWE#vRlb3~S X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:27:02 -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:40047 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > 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? 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.