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Diffstat (limited to 'selftest/selftest.pl')
| -rwxr-xr-x | selftest/selftest.pl | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/selftest/selftest.pl b/selftest/selftest.pl index 5077a17901..6f8cbe1fe8 100755 --- a/selftest/selftest.pl +++ b/selftest/selftest.pl @@ -399,8 +399,14 @@ $prefix =~ s+/$++; die("using an empty prefix isn't allowed") unless $prefix ne ""; -#Ensure we have the test prefix around -mkdir($prefix, 0777) unless -d $prefix; +# Ensure we have the test prefix around. +# +# We need restrictive +# permissions on this as some subdirectories in this tree will have +# wider permissions (ie 0777) and this would allow other users on the +# host to subvert the test process. +mkdir($prefix, 0700) unless -d $prefix; +chmod 0700, $prefix; my $prefix_abs = abs_path($prefix); my $tmpdir_abs = abs_path("$prefix/tmp"); |