On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Raj Mathur wrote:
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"Hadmut" == Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Hadmut> [snip]
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.
I wouldn't know if something has changed drastically between 2.6.16
and 2.6.17.11, but:
raju@mail:~$ find /usr/src/linux-2.6.16/ -perm -666 ! -type l
raju@mail:~$
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.
