Re: Applescript (Quicktime) "with replacing" bug
Re: Applescript (Quicktime) "with replacing" bug
- Subject: Re: Applescript (Quicktime) "with replacing" bug
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:23:33 -0500
Uhm, yeah. Even Unix, the king of the "But what if the user *wants*
to shoot himself in the foot?" design philosophy, refuses to replace a
directory with a single file. You have to explicitly move or remove
the dir first. I'm pretty sure "with replacing" is not intended to
be quite this powerful. But even if it is, the real worrisome part is
the reported privilege escalation (assuming it's real; haven't
confirmed).
On 12/19/07, Nigel Garvey <email@hidden> wrote:
> "Sean DiZazzo" wrote on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:28:48 -0800:
>
> >Hi Group,
> >Consider the following code...but DON'T EXECUTE IT!
> >
> >set dest to "/usr/local/etc" set dest to POSIX file dest tell application
> >"QuickTime Player" tell document 1 export to file dest as QuickTime movie
> >using most recent settings with replacing end tell end tell
> >
> >On my machine, it will overwrite the directory "/usr/local/etc" with a
> >quicktime file name "etc", wiping out the entire contents of the directory.
>
> That's exactly what you've told it to do. :) The 'to' parameter
> specifies the file as which you want to export the movie, not the folder
> in which you want the file to appear.
>
>
> NG
>
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