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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2012-11-20 18:10:21 -0800
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2012-11-20 18:10:54 -0800
commit177815716eef942ec3a4364827195fbdcf6f080f (patch)
tree8963615c1ca1d4201fc446e470ae639d1eff1e16 /NEWS
parent505fb47dc1743ea5411479276d825e4714bef312 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-177815716eef942ec3a4364827195fbdcf6f080f.tar.xz
install: fix security race
* NEWS: Document this.
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@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
Instead, cut now fails and emits an appropriate diagnostic.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
+ install -m M SOURCE DEST no longer has a race condition where DEST's
+ permissions are temporarily derived from SOURCE instead of from M.
+
pr -n no longer crashes when passed values >= 32. Also line numbers are
consistently padded with spaces, rather than with zeros for certain widths.
[bug introduced in TEXTUTILS-1_22i]