Bug 4838

Summary:	vi race condition
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Red Hat Bugzilla <bugzilla>
Component:	vim	Assignee:	Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description Red Hat Bugzilla 1999-09-01 19:06:39 UTC

I have noticed that when logged on as root and using VI,

VI will open a work file that belongs to a different user.

So, user A is editing thesis.tex and root is going to edit
/etc/hosts. Root will see the work file of user A's
thesis.tex.

I think that there is a bug in the temp files for VI but
I dont have the time to chase it down with the start of
classes at hand.

Richard Wong

Comment 1 Red Hat Bugzilla 1999-09-20 17:35:59 UTC

Is this happening to you always or occasionally or rarely?  (I use
vi as root very often and have never seen this.)

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 1999-09-23 17:10:59 UTC

One more possibility is that your machine has been compromised by
a cracker.  Consider, as a first investigative step, running the
command
	rpm -Va
And looking through any problems it reports.

Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 1999-10-04 21:34:59 UTC

If anyone can reproduce this with any version of vi, please
re-open this bug with a description of what you did to recreate
the bug, and include the exact version of vim you are using.
Thanks!