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Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 18:17:04 +0100
From: Christian Brabandt <cb@...bit.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Fw: Security risk of vim swap files
On Fr, 03 Nov 2017, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> In general, what vim does (copying mode bits) in not enough to ensure that
> the swapfile is readable only by the users who had access to the original
> file. It would have to copy also group ownership and ACLs.
I think patch https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v8.0.1263 fixes
the group ownership problem.
Christian
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