Bug 4219
| Summary: | joe leaves DEADJOE world-readable | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Louis Mandelstam <louism> |
| Component: | joe | Assignee: | Cristian Gafton <gafton> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| 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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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-09-02 16:11:55 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Fiexed in joe-2.8-21. |
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);