Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 03:05:51 +0300 (EEST) From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: sobomax@FreeBSD.org (Maxim Sobolev) Cc: security@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously create world writeable dirs Message-ID: <200206070005.g5705qA19868@vega.vega.com> In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "Maxim Sobolev" at Jun 07, 2002 01:45:52 AM
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> > Hi, > > I've just noticed that something wrong with the new tar in the base > system (1.13.25) - when extracting some archives it creates 777 dirs, > while permissions in the archive itself are OK (for example GNU make > make-3.79.1.tar.gz - top level dir gets 777 as well as several > other lowel level dirs). The issue is under investigation. Should be solved now. Stupid GNU folks for some reason decided that when tar is executed as uid 0 then by default umask(2) should not be applied to files and dirs being extracted. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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