Your message dated Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:17:07 +0000
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and subject line Bug#475182: fixed in mcabber 0.9.7-0.1
has caused the Debian Bug report #475182,
regarding mcabber should use stat (not lstat) to check config file permissions
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Package: mcabber
Version: 0.8.3-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
My .mcabberrc is a symlink to an encfs-encrypted file because it
contains a password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l .mcabberrc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dh3 dh3 16 2008-03-20 09:37 .mcabberrc -> encfs/.mcabberrc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l encfs/.mcabberrc
-rw------- 1 dh3 dh3 10004 2008-03-28 14:47 encfs/.mcabberrc
When mcabber starts, it complains about the file permissions:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mcabber
MCabber 0.8.3 -- Email: mcabber [at] lilotux [dot] net
[15:31:29] MCabber 0.8.3 -- Email: mcabber [at] lilotux [dot] net
[15:31:29] Bad permissions [/home/dh3/.mcabberrc]
[15:31:29] Permissions have been corrected
I believe this is because mcabber is using lstat when it should be using
stat to check the file permissions. The permissions of the symlink are
irrelevant, it's the permissions on the target file that should be
checked. (Incidentally, the message claiming that the permissions have
been corrected is false because chmod works on the target file not the
symlink.)
I've attached a small patch to fix this.
thanks,
Dave
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages mcabber depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libncursesw5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8c-4etch1 SSL shared libraries
mcabber recommends no packages.
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--- mcabber-0.8.3/src/utils.c 2006-11-16 20:54:21.000000000 +0000
+++ mcabber-0.8.3-patched/src/utils.c 2008-04-09 15:36:12.307000000 +0100
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
return 0;
#endif
- fd = lstat(name, &buf);
+ fd = stat(name, &buf);
if (fd == -1) return -1;
if (buf.st_uid != geteuid()) {
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: mcabber
Source-Version: 0.9.7-0.1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
mcabber, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
mcabber_0.9.7-0.1.diff.gz
to pool/main/m/mcabber/mcabber_0.9.7-0.1.diff.gz
mcabber_0.9.7-0.1.dsc
to pool/main/m/mcabber/mcabber_0.9.7-0.1.dsc
mcabber_0.9.7-0.1_powerpc.deb
to pool/main/m/mcabber/mcabber_0.9.7-0.1_powerpc.deb
mcabber_0.9.7.orig.tar.gz
to pool/main/m/mcabber/mcabber_0.9.7.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated mcabber package)
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:51:43 +0200
Source: mcabber
Binary: mcabber
Architecture: source powerpc
Version: 0.9.7-0.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Mario Iseli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
mcabber - Small Jabber console client
Closes: 475182 479601
Changes:
mcabber (0.9.7-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Non-maintainer upload.
* New upstream release, which includes:
- using stat instead of lstat for permission check (closes: #475182)
* Fix watchfile to watch only for numbered versions (closes: #479601)
* Updated Standards-Version to 3.8.0:
- Added README.source quick introduction on dpatch usage.
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