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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:08:57 +0200
From: Matthias Weckbecker <mweckbecker@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: CVE request(?): gpg: improper file permssions set when en/de-crypting files
Hi Steve,
On Monday 24 September 2012 22:03:20 Steven M. Christey wrote:
> FYI, this discussion is an interesting example of what I've called the
> "snowball effect" in CVE when new kinds of issues arise that test the
> boundaries of what should or should not belong in CVE - allowing one (or a
> handful) could open the door to hundreds or thousands of other products
> that have the same issue.
Well, I think we are already past of this effect: Looking at [1], I could find
multiple CVE that have been assigned for such issues.
[1] http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/732.html
>
> Personally, I would expect a security/privacy-preserving product to select
> the most conservative file permissions that it knows won't violate the
> user's intention; in this case, the permissions of the original "source"
> file, as further restricted by the user-specified umask. If the user
> calls gpg with a world-readable file and a "promiscuous" umask, then they
Even if the encrypted file is not world-readable, the result (=decrypted file)
is going to be placed world-readable as long as the default umask (=0022) was
used.
[...]
> - Steve
Thanks, Matthias
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Tel: +49-911-74053-0; http://suse.com/
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