Bug 522351

Summary:	Permissions of symlinked source file/folder set to 777 if symlink is copied via nautilus
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Arand Nash <ienorand>
Component:	glib2	Assignee:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	11	CC:	ienorand, mclasen
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Description Arand Nash 2009-09-10 06:35:15 UTC

Description of problem:
When copying a symlink using nautilus (using glib) the target file/folder's permissions are set to 777.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
-

How reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a symlink to a file or folder, on which you normally are able change permissions. (touch ~/testfile && ln -s ~/testfile ~/testlink)
2. Copy the symlink to anywhere using Nautilus (ctrl+c && ctrl+v)
3. Check permissions of the symlinked file or folder
  
Actual results:
Symlinked file or folder permissions are changed to 777 (drwxrwxrwx user:user)

Expected results:
Permissions of symlinked file folder should be unchanged

Additional info:
Binary package hint: glib


NOTE: If testing different versions, nautilus needs to be restarted (including desktop), this easily done with:
killall nautilus && nautilus &disown

This bug does not allow setting permissions which your user could not do with chmod anyway, and hence is not a privilege escalation issue.

Comment 1 Arand Nash 2009-09-11 16:47:48 UTC

Some links:
git fix commit: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/glib/commit/?h=glib-2-20
Debian patch in SVN: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/glib2.0/

Comment 2 Arand Nash 2009-09-24 16:41:41 UTC

debian patch has been dropped, since merged upstream.

Comment 3 Arand Nash 2009-09-24 16:56:12 UTC

...and the git commit is: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/glib/commit/?h=glib-2-20&id=865c47d1a02d0e7a826e4b09c9c28ac2276d998b
rather

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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 14:34:20 UTC

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