Bug 112385 – VIM strips SUID bit on write (vim patch 6.0.235 needed)

Bug 112385 - VIM strips SUID bit on write (vim patch 6.0.235 needed)

Summary:	VIM strips SUID bit on write (vim patch 6.0.235 needed)

Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	vim (Show other bugs)
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Version:	2.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Karsten Hopp
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2003-12-18 13:45 EST by Malcolm Heath
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:06 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-01-13 04:28:36 EST
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Description Malcolm Heath 2003-12-18 13:45:17 EST

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Description of problem:
When editing a suid file with vim, the suid bit is lost when the file
is written.

This is fixed (I believe) by vim patch 6.0.235.  

This patch has been applied in vim versions greater than 6.0, so the
problem isn't evident in later versions of RedHat Enterprise Linux.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vim-6.0-7.15

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a SUID file
   touch foo
   chmod 4755 foo
2. edit the file with vi and cause the file to be written (i.e. :w)
3. ls -l foo shows permissions set to rwxr-xr-x
    

Expected Results:  file permissions should not be effected by the editor.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2004-01-13 04:28:36 EST

the suid bits on scripts are't used. Therefore I've added a patch to 
CVS to make sure this gets in when we release a erratum.

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