Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 16:26:05 +0200 From: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Warnings while compiling Samba Message-ID: <20010514162605.C3213@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> In-Reply-To: <3AFFE661.5D6015EA@comune.arzignano.vi.it>; from fathom@comune.arzignano.vi.it on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:06:25PM %2B0200 References: <3AFFE661.5D6015EA@comune.arzignano.vi.it>
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On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:06:25PM +0200, Francesco Toscan wrote: > Hi, > > last night i decided to turn that old 486 into a Samba server for my > internal network. > I cvsupped to 4.3-STABLE, synched my source and ports tree and then > compiled samba-devel from ports. > make goes fine and servers work well as expected, but during compilation > i noticed several warnings like this: > > lib/util.o: In function `smbd_mktemp': > lib/util.o(.text+0x28d8): warning: mktemp() possibly used unsafely; > consider using mkstemp() > > Now, servers work, but should i be concerned about any security issues > derivating from these warnings? Hello, This warning is always triggered if the linker encounters this function name since often it is used unsafely and since FreeBSD provides a better alternative. But this is for the programmer/porter who might consider if he better swap mktemp() to mkstemp() or not. Unfortunately, it is not as easy as switching the two words... so I do not think you should be very concerned about this. -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Szeged University Szeged Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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