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authorRalf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>2009-12-08 22:31:37 +0100
committerRalf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>2009-12-08 22:31:37 +0100
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Update NEWS.br-1-9
* NEWS: Update. Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
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+2009-12-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ * NEWS: Update.
+
2009-11-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
do not put world-writable directories in distribution tarballs
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@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ Bugs fixes in 1.9.6a:
* Longstanding bugs:
- The distribution is tarred up with mode 755 now by the `dist*' targets.
+ This fixes a race condition where untrusted users could modify files
+ in the $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION) distdir before packing if the toplevel
+ build directory was world-searchable. This is CVE-2009-4029.
+
Bugs fixed in 1.9.6: