ls -li can confirm or deny the delete-and-recreate theory. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1415744
Title: Firefox changes Files that are owned by root and read only Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Hello. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (actually Xubuntu 64 Bit) with Firefox 35.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 . While trying to lock my symbol panel, I gave the file .mozilla/firefox/61pbl108.default/xulstore.json to root and took all write rights. -r-------- 1 root root 270 Jan 29 00:29 .mozilla/firefox/61pbl108.default/xulstore.json But when closing Fireox, it changes those rights back to: -rw------- 1 stfischr stfischr 270 Jan 29 00:29 .mozilla/firefox/61pbl108.default/xulstore.json Even when I use sudo chattr +i it still writes to the file, but doesn't change owner and rights anymore. How is that even possible? I verified firefox is running as normal user and I'm also logged in as normal user. This is a serius security issue, a programm running as user that is able to write into files belonging to root! Any ideas on this one? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1415744/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
