World writable tarballs

From: Mark Rosenstand
Date: Sat Apr 29 2006 - 20:19:16 EST

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Hi,

It seems that at least the content of the 2.6.16 tarball is world
writable if extracted with GNU tar as an privileged user.

Is this on purpose in order to prove some point?

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