Bug#882055: Gedit breaks when writing to a file

[Michael Biebl]

Am 25.11.2017 um 12:36 schrieb Narcis Garcia:
> Have present that this bug does not make Gedit "completely unusable to
> everyone" (important), but "causes data loss" (grave), and it's a grave
> problem when someone uses Gedit to edit configuration files, source code
> files or script files:
> 
> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
> 
> (Gedit is not used by most of people as a common word processor)

I'm well aware of the different bug severities, thank you.

That said, having the setuid bit set for a text file simply doesn't make
any sense so I doubt anyone will be actually affected by this in
practice as no such files should exist.

The setuid bit only makes sense in the context of binaries which can be
executed.



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