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Re: security bug in cp(1)
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: security bug in cp(1) |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:30:04 +0200 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Maybe the NEWS file should be changed? Something like this?
>
> 2007-08-17 Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
>
> * NEWS: The old cp -p bug affected coreutils releases before 6.0.
> Problem reported by Soren Spies in
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-08/msg00106.html>.
> To be conservative, just say the bug was in all versions through 6.6.
>
> --- old/NEWS 2007-08-08 14:08:02.000000000 -0700
> +++ new/NEWS 2007-08-17 12:50:12.000000000 -0700
> @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS
> Fix similar problems with cp options like -p that imply
> --preserve=ownership, with install -d when combined with either -o
> or -g, and with mv when copying across file system boundaries.
> - This bug affects coreutils 6.0 through 6.6.
> + This bug affects all versions of coreutils through 6.6.
>
> du --one-file-system (-x) would skip subdirectories of any directory
> listed as second or subsequent command line argument. This bug affects
Thanks.
Applied.