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Cache .apks in internal storage before installing.
This prevents an app with "write external storage" permission from being able to switch the legit app with a dodgey one between F-Droid requesting an install, and the package manager actually showing the install dialog to the user. In order to make the file in private internal storage readable by the package manager, its parent directories need to be world-executable, and the file itself needs to be world-readable. It seems that the "/data/data/org.fdroid.fdroid/cache" dir provided by the Context is already world executable, but the "apks" subdirectory does not default to this. Also, to be compatible with android-8, a Runtime.getRuntime().exec() call was added for such devices, which invokes /system/bin/chmod. The effect of this was to require some level of file sanitization to be made available using the Java type system to prevent command injection attacks from weird apk names (as people are free to download metadata from random internet people).
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