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.desktop files and security

.desktop files and security

Posted Apr 8, 2006 23:02 UTC (Sat) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: .desktop files and security by smoogen
Parent article: .desktop files and security

When extracting from an untrusted archive, tar, unzip and similar should be invoked with a sane umask that prevents the creation of executable files.


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