Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 22:12:32 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sort(1) tempfile patch Message-ID: <p04330116b627dcf72160@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20001102180652.mheffner@vt.edu> References: <XFMail.20001102180652.mheffner@vt.edu>
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At 6:06 PM -0500 11/2/00, Mike Heffner wrote:
>It was just never applied, I had submitted a PR about it too,
>(bin/16929) and got the reply:
>
>From: Tim Vanderhoek <tim@localhost.nowhere>
> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, spock@techfour.net
> Subject: Re: bin/16929: [PATCH] prevent possible race condition
> Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 00:36:58 -0400 (EDT)
>
> > sort can create the following predictable tempfiles:
> > /tmp/sort{pid}{seq}
>
> It appears that the security implications of this have
> already been fixed in rev.1.11 of src/gnu/usr.bin/sort/sort.c.
>
>so nothing was really done about it.
Does that imply the security issue is already fixed (one
way or another) in rev 1.11, but that we never upgraded
to rev 1.11? I mean, if the security implications were
addressed, then what is it that prompts Kris's update.
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