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Re: CVE request: psi+ stores the cache file as world-readable

From: gremlin () gremlin ru
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:41:28 +0400

On 26-Feb-2013 23:04:24 +0100, Agostino Sarubbo wrote:

Psi+, a fork of psi, stores its files in ~/.cache/psi+ as
world-readable.


That's normal - users' home directories are normally accessible
only by users themselves, and never by othe users:

gremlin@hren:~ > ls -ld .
drwx-----x 47 gremlin users 20480 2013-02-26 17:48 ./

This is the most loosy home directory mode I use - that's for
accessing ~/www by httpd. Even there I use umask 027 and at
other (non-http) servers it's 077.

Also, please check the umask setting in this case - I guess
psi+ respects it when creating files.


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CVE request: psi+ stores the cache file as world-readable Agostino Sarubbo (Feb 26)
- Re: CVE request: psi+ stores the cache file as world-readable Seth Arnold (Feb 26)
  - Re: CVE request: psi+ stores the cache file as world-readable Agostino Sarubbo (Feb 26)
  - Re: CVE request: psi+ stores the cache file as world-readable Kurt Seifried (Feb 26)
- Re: CVE request: psi+ stores the cache file as world-readable gremlin (Feb 26)
  - Re: CVE request: psi+ stores the cache file as world-readable Russ Allbery (Feb 26)
    - Re: CVE request: psi+ stores the cache file as world-readable gremlin (Feb 26)
  - Re: CVE request: psi+ stores the cache file as world-readable Agostino Sarubbo (Feb 27)