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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 10:04:59 +0000
From: Simon McVittie <smcv@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Fw: Security risk of vim swap files
On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 at 20:33:30 -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote:
> 1. vim creates a swap file applying user's umask.
More specifically, this should be (and does indeed seem to be) the
permissions of the file being edited, masked by the user's umask -
so that if have a loose umask and I edit a secret file, the swap file
doesn't leak its contents.
~/tmp/vim% umask
022
~/tmp/vim% ls -Al
total 4
-rw------- 1 smcv smcv 8 Nov 1 09:50 secret-file
~/tmp/vim% gvim secret-file
~/tmp/vim% ls -Al
total 16
-rw------- 1 smcv smcv 12288 Nov 1 09:50 .secret-file.swp
-rw------- 1 smcv smcv 8 Nov 1 09:50 secret-file
A more naive implementation might have created .secret-file.swp with
-rw-r--r-- permissions according to my umask, but that would have been
bad.
Regards,
smcv
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