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Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 21:58:23 +0100
From: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@...lk.net>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Fw: Security risk of vim swap files
* Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@...onical.com>, 2017-11-06, 15:09:
>Is it not the kernel's responsibility to enforce umask(2) is properly
>applied?
Yes, most programs don't have to care about this.
>Obviously there's good case to be made that manual chmod(2) calls could
>or should be modified by umask(2) values by hand, but probably all
>those chmod(2) calls ought to be re-written to set the modes correctly
>at file creation time (or mkdir, etc) to avoid race conditions.
vim creates the swapfile initially with mode 0600, and later chmods it.
There's no race condition.
--
Jakub Wilk
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