mutt overwrites permissions of attached files

Bug #574730 reported by Sébastien Mengin
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
mutt (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
mutt (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned
Lucid
Won't Fix
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: mutt

mutt_1.5.20-7ubuntu1_i386.deb
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04

When composing a message and attaching a file, if one opens the file through mutt before sending it, mutt overwrites permissions to 600.
Thus, the user cannot overwrite it anymore... until he chmod himself.

See a complete description here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=572203

Please apply the patches mentioned in the above thread.

Thanks!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: mutt 1.5.20-7ubuntu1 [modified: usr/bin/mutt]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 3 21:38:13 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mutt

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Sébastien Mengin (sebastien-edilibre) wrote :
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Sébastien Mengin (sebastien-edilibre) wrote :

Precision : this is not the user who can't overwrite anymore.

Example: say I have foo.pdf, produced with pdflatex.
If I open it in mutt as an attachment before sending it, mutt chmods it to 600.
If I then want to recompile foo.tex, the compilation aborts because foo.pdf is not writable by pdflatex anymore.

I hope we can apply a patch quickly.

Thanks,
Sébastien

Changed in mutt (Debian):
status: Unknown → Fix Committed
Changed in mutt (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in mutt (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
tags: added: regression-release
Changed in mutt (Debian):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in mutt (Ubuntu Lucid):
milestone: none → lucid-updates
Revision history for this message
Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

This was fixed in Debian with mutt version 1.5.20-8 which is available since Maverick Meerkat (10.10).

      mutt | 1.5.20-9ubuntu2 | maverick | source, amd64, armel, i386, powerpc
      mutt | 1.5.20-9ubuntu2.1 | maverick-security | source, amd64, armel, i386, powerpc
      mutt | 1.5.20-9ubuntu2.1 | maverick-updates | source, amd64, armel, i386, powerpc
      mutt | 1.5.21-2ubuntu3 | natty | source, amd64, armel, i386, powerpc
      mutt | 1.5.21-2ubuntu3.1 | natty-security | source, amd64, armel, i386, powerpc
      mutt | 1.5.21-2ubuntu3.1 | natty-updates | source, amd64, armel, i386, powerpc
      mutt | 1.5.21-5 | oneiric | source, amd64, armel, i386, powerpc

Changed in mutt (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

lucid has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the lucid task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

Changed in mutt (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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