[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:36:43 +0200
From: Nico Golde <oss-security+ml@...lde.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE id request: mktemp
Hi Sebastian,
* Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@...e.de> [2008-08-18 13:25]:
> BTW, mktemp(1) is using O_EXCL anyway, so I dont see
> an issue. Additionally all of our scripts use
> more than 6 X' as also shown in the
> example section of the manpage. We are not going to
> release updates for this non-issue.
This is known but as I wrote in the bug report:
"the file is safely created with O_EXCL and 0600, still
unsafe if used with -u"
Kind regards
Nico
--
Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - nion@...ber.ccc.de - GPG: 0x73647CFF
For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
Content of type "application/pgp-signature" skipped
Powered by blists - more mailing lists
Please check out the
Open Source Software Security Wiki, which is counterpart to this
mailing list.
Confused about mailing lists and their use?
Read about mailing lists on Wikipedia
and check out these
guidelines on proper formatting of your messages.
