Your message dated Tue, 20 May 2014 20:48:35 -0700 (PDT) with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#186774 has caused the Debian Bug report #186774, regarding GNU Emacs 21: desktop.el security weakness? to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: emacs21 Version: 21.2-1 Severity: wishlist I asked about this on the -emacsen list a while ago, but nobody replied... This is from the end of desktop-save in desktop.el: (if (file-exists-p filename) (delete-file filename)) (let ((coding-system-for-write 'emacs-mule)) (write-region (point-min) (point-max) filename nil 'nomessage)))) IOW emacs always recreates the desktop file from scratch. This seems to have the unpleasant side-effect that it is made world-readable with each save (unless blocked by umask, but most people's umask is not that paranoid). Does anyone else agree that this might be a problem? Simply removing the first line should fix it ... -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. if (sizeof(signed) > sizeof(unsigned) + 4) { delete this; } GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087
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--- Begin Message ---I verified that this issue does not occur in the current Emacs, 24.3. (I did not check precisely when it changed.)
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