On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Raj Mathur wrote:
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>>>>>> "Hadmut" == Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@danisch.de> writes:
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> Hadmut> [snip]
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> Hadmut> When unpacking such an archive, tar also sets the uid,
> Hadmut> gid, and file permissions given in the tar
> Hadmut> archive. Unfortunately, plenty of files and directories in
> Hadmut> that archive are world writable. E.g. in the 2.6.17.11
> Hadmut> archive, there are 1201 world writable directories and
> Hadmut> 19554 world writable files.
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> I wouldn't know if something has changed drastically between 2.6.16
> and 2.6.17.11, but:
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> raju@mail:~$ find /usr/src/linux-2.6.16/ -perm -666 ! -type l
> raju@mail:~$
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> Not a single world-writable file or directory. Perhaps pre-release
> kernel tarballs are more lax?

Seems to. I just checked linux-2.6.13 and linux-2.6.17.6. While the
first has no world writeable files or directories at all the latter
has tons of it. Interesting.

Cheers,

Chris Kronberg.