GNU bug report logs - #11100
Racy code in copy.c

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Philipp Thomas <pth <at> suse.de>

Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:32:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 11074

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 11100 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Philipp Thomas <pth <at> suse.de>, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Subject: bug#11100: Racy code in copy.c
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 08:38:40 -0800

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
I spotted a SELinux security-context race introduced by the circa-2012 
fix for Bug#11100, and installed the attached patch into coreutils 
master. This also gets rid of a label and goto (which is what led me to 
find the issue).
[0001-cp-fix-security-context-race.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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