Package: coreutils Version: 8.13-3.5 Severity: critical File: /bin/cp Justification: causes serious data loss
creating two files, identical names, different dates. after executing cp --attributes-only second file has no data. cp shouldn't delete anything, just copy. debian stable shouldn't have this issue. it's fixed in 8.17, there is no backport to stable since May 2012. yavor@host:~$ cat > aaaaa data yavor@host:~$ mkdir b yavor@host:~$ touch -d "2015-01-01 00:00:00" aaaaa yavor@host:~$ cat > b/aaaaa data2 yavor@host:~$ cp --attributes-only aaaaa b/aaaaa yavor@host:~$ cat b/aaaaa yavor@host:~$ ls -la b/ total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 yavor yavor 4096 Mar 12 04:51 . drwxr-xr-x 3 yavor yavor 4096 Mar 12 04:48 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 yavor yavor 0 Mar 12 04:52 aaaaa -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii dpkg 1.16.15 ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-10 ii libacl1 2.2.51-8 ii libattr1 1:2.4.46-8 ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u8 ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5 coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
