Using Thunderbird 38.8.0 in Ubuntu 16.04, when I open a pdf I now get a
-r 1 thomas thomas 19K Jun 16 18:28 filename.pdf
So nobody can read the file, which is 95% of the security fix. The
remaining 5% would be to not expose the file name to other users.
That's exactly how it is done for
The rights setting in /tmp is 644, not 755.
Anyway, what is so complicated setting them to 600?
And by the way, couldn't these files be deleted at some time?
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Bug continues, all users of thunderbird use /tmp as 755 so everybody can
read attachments that one user has opened. Is there any straight
solution ? It´s a great fail of security.
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Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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Title:
Thunderbird writes attachments to /tmp readable to everyone
To manag
As the discussion about this was going on for 8 years in the mozilla
community, I suggest to at least set permissions right in the distros.
For the moment, there is only one path (which is /tmp) and there is only
the original name used. That said, concurrent users could overwrite
their temporary f
I was wrong. Not overwrite, just read. Which makes it even less probable
to break things.
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Title:
Thunderbird writes attachments to /tmp readable
** Changed in: thunderbird
Status: In Progress => Confirmed
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Title:
Thunderbird writes attachments to /tmp readable to everyone
To manage
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** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #377630
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** Also affects: thunderbird via
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