Bug#555308: xserver-xorg: X inherits user's umask

2009-11-17 Thread Julien Cristau
tag 555308 fixed-upstream kthxbye On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:48:05 +0100, Piotr Engelking wrote: > /usr/bin/X, which is a suid root program, keeps the umask of the user > that started X. This results in at least one security problem: if the > user sets umask to 0, /var/log/Xorg.*.log will be worl

Bug#555308: xserver-xorg: X inherits user's umask

2009-11-09 Thread Piotr Engelking
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.4+4 Severity: normal Tags: security X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@security.debian.org /usr/bin/X, which is a suid root program, keeps the umask of the user that started X. This results in at least one security problem: if the user sets umask to 0, /var/log/Xorg.*.log will b