GNU bug report logs - #6953
24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mark Diekhans <markd <at> soe.ucsc.edu>

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:13:02 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #65 received at 6953 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 6953 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, cyd <at> stupidchicken.com, markd <at> soe.ucsc.edu
Subject: Re: bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:43:03 +0200

> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:36:26 -0400
> Cc: markd <at> soe.ucsc.edu, 6953 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>     > Do you mean, make no backup file at all.
> 
>     Yeah.
> 
> To make no backup file seems like a gross insecurity to me.

Agreed.
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