World writable speakup files in Linux next

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On Sun, 12 Dec 2010, Greg KH wrote:

> But, the world writable bit can be seen as a big security issue right
> now, right?  It would be good to get that fixed, or at the very least,
> narrowed down a lot right now.
>
> greg k-h

Just curious, if the world writable files are working correctly and
with no overrun buffer bugs etc why are they a security risk?

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