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Message-ID: <ee796o$vue$1@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:35:21 +0000 (UTC) From: daw@...berkeley.edu (David Wagner) To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: R: Linux kernel source archive vulnerable linux-os \(Dick Johnson\) wrote: >On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, David Wagner wrote: >> Just because it is a bug in tar doesn't mean that Linux developers have >> to create their tarfile in a way that tickles the bug. Two wrongs don't >> make a right. > >It's not a tar bug, [...] You misunderstand my point. I don't care whether it is a tar bug or not. I'm not claiming it is a tar bug. I'm saying that people on those threads claimed that this is a tar bug and used that as an excuse to do nothing about the problem of world-writeable files in the Linux tar archive. I'm saying that's a lousy excuse. What I'm saying is that, even if we accept that it is a tar bug, that's not a good excuse for doing nothing about the problem. Of course, if it is not a tar bug, then that makes it an even weaker excuse. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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