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[SM-Discuss] linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 kernel source permissions

From: David Brown <dmlb2000 AT gmail.com>
To: SM Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [SM-Discuss] linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 kernel source permissions
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:42:23 -0800

if someone could forward this to sm-security that'd be great.

The linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 tarball has global rw permissions for many of the source files in the kernel tree.

This isn't good at all and users should be warned about fixing their source trees

to fix this...

# cd /usr/src/linux && chmod o-w -R ./*

- David Brown

PS I'll email lkml and ftpadmin about the files.

[SM-Discuss] linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 kernel source permissions, David Brown, 11/26/2005
- Re: [SM-Discuss] linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 kernel source permissions, Jeremy Blosser (emrys), 11/27/2005
  - Re: [SM-Discuss] linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 kernel source permissions, David Brown, 11/27/2005