[tex-live] README with executable bit on

jfbu jfbu at free.fr
Fri Apr 5 21:51:57 CEST 2013


Le 5 avr. 2013 à 21:44, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> a écrit :

> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:18 PM, jfbu wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I just updated TL 2012 on a Mac OS, using TeX Live Utility
>> I see a small package passing by,  "roundbox" and I want to
>> read its documentation. Double-Clicking the README icon
>> pops up a Terminal window and it appears as is some script
>> was trying to run.
>> 
>> So I go
>> to see the actual file:
>> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/doc/latex/roundbox/README
>> and it has the executable bit on, although it is a perfectly
>> innocent text file
>> 
>>  -rwxr-xr-x        945 Apr  4 00:39 README
>> 
>> retrospectively isn't this a potential security problem?
> 
> I fixed it in revision 29675.
> 
> Mojca

thanks. The style file also had the executable bits on for ugo
regards,
Jean-Francois




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