REDHAT-BUG-498648

First published: Fri May 01 2009(Updated: )

A Debian bug report [1] brought to light the fact that Evolution does not create its data files with appropriate permissions. Because of this, if user A on a system uses Evolut ion for email, user B can read any of user A's email. The default permissions for ~/.evolution is 0755, and the default permissions for Evolution data files is 0644 (although s trangely enough the default permissions for .index* files is 0600). As well, by default in Fedora and RHEL5, a user's home directory has mode 0755 permissions. By contrast, Firefox creates ~/.mozilla/firefox as mode 0700, protecting user bookmarks and caches. Evolution should probably create/enforce ~/.evolution being mode 0700. [1] <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526409">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526409</a>

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