Package: base Severity: critical Tags: security Justification: root security hole
I tried to edit /etc/fstab as user (forgot to use `sudo') but, as I noticed later, the partition that contains the root (/) files was full. After that I tried to edit the file as superuser (I hadn't read the message when I tried to write because I assumed it was complaining about permission). But when I opened the file again it was empty (it did exist; but no text, as if created with touch). The editor I used is vim and the filesystem is ext2. Chiel Kooijman PS I hope I'm not scaring people about a non-issue, this is my first bug report and I tried to fill out everything as precise as I could. I do not believe this is a bug in vim as I think no program run under a normal user should be able to edit a file without write permission. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
