Bug#882055: Gedit breaks when writing to a file

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Sat Nov 25 11:29:15 UTC 2017


Control: severity -1 normal
Control: retitle -1 gedit aborts when writing to a file with setuid bit

Am 25.11.2017 um 12:17 schrieb Narcis Garcia:
> Sorry, I forgot to test with and without setuid bit:
> 
> $ id -un
> userA
> $ echo "Content text" > file.txt
> $ sudo chown userB file.txt
> $ sudo chmod u+s,g+rw file.txt
> 
> $ nano file.txt
> # Modyfy and save: Fine.
> 
> $ gedit file.txt
> # Modify and save:
> GLib-GIO:ERROR:/build/glib2.0-B1uXKV/glib2.0-2.50.3/./gio/glocalfilemonitor.c:433:g_file_monitor_source_handle_event:
> code should not be reached

Given the special circumstances which are needed to trigger this issue,
I'm downgrading the severity.


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