Bug 4219

Summary: joe leaves DEADJOE world-readable
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Louis Mandelstam <louism>
Component: joeAssignee: Cristian Gafton <gafton>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact:
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Priority: high    
Version: 6.0Keywords: Security
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OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&date=1999-07-15&msg=Pine.BSI.3.95.990717040216.12080A-100000@blues.jpj.net
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Last Closed: 1999-09-02 16:11:55 UTC Type: ---
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Description Louis Mandelstam 1999-07-27 12:20:08 UTC 
This was reported on BUGTRAQ on Jul 17 1999.  Please see
quoted URL for an archived copy of the original BUGTRAQ
post.

Patch offered in the post (I haven't tested it): (a bit
broken by the web form)

--- b.c.orig    Fri Jan 20 00:38:25 1995
+++ b.c Sat Jul 17 01:54:09 1999
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include <pwd.h>
 #endif
 #include <errno.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>

 #include "config.h"
 #include "blocks.h"
@@ -1990,6 +1991,7 @@
  {
  long tim=time(0);
  B *b;
+ mode_t mask=umask (077); /* no access to DEADJOE for
others */
  FILE *f=fopen("DEADJOE","a");
  fprintf(f,"\n*** Modified files in JOE when it aborted on
%s",ctime(&tim));
  if(sig) fprintf(f,"*** JOE was aborted by signal
%d\n",sig);
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-09-02 16:11:59 UTC 
Fiexed in joe-2.8-21.