Package: alien Severity: normal
Hello, when alien converts package to deb it takes permissions from symlinks (rwxrwxrwx) and passes it to chmod which changes the permissions of the pointed-to file. That can lead to very hazardous situation. For example if /usr/bin/somebinary points to /opt/package/bin/somebinary, alien will generate this code: # alien added permissions fixup code [...] chmod '777' '/usr/bin/somebinary' and since chmod changes permissions of pointed-to file, original file (/opt/package/bin/somebinary) gets rwxrwxrwx. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-xen-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
