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Date:      Sat, 10 Mar 2001 22:53:46 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc:        Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net>, security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: temp files for security/logcheck
Message-ID:  <20010310225345.A14180@mollari.cthul.hu>
In-Reply-To: <200103110447.f2B4lww04741@ns1.unixathome.org>; from dan@langille.org on Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 05:47:58PM %2B1300
References:  <200103110435.f2B4ZHw04676@ns1.unixathome.org>; <20010310234519.A68252@databits.net> <200103110447.f2B4lww04741@ns1.unixathome.org>

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On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 05:47:58PM +1300, Dan Langille wrote:
> AFAIK, the files disappear each time the script is run:
>=20
> umask 077
> rm -f $TMPDIR/check.$$ $TMPDIR/checkoutput.$$=20

[...]

Blah, that's an insecure way to create files in $TMPDIR (which is
usually /tmp).  It needs to use mktemp(1).

Kris

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