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Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 20:47:51 +0000
From: rob <europax@home.com>
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To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
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Subject: Re: tempnam() possibly used unsafely; keeps showing
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> * David Banning <david@www3.pacific-pages.com> [001001 19:55] wrote:
> > I get this error message quite a bit while compiling.
> >
> > Now I am getting it compiling mysql322-client;
> >
> > .libs/libmysqlclient.so: warning:
> > tempnam() possibly used unsafely; consider using mkstemp()^M
> >
> > I am attempting to go through every file that makes up
> > libmysqlclient.so to see if tempnam is in, then change it to
> > mkstemp - but it is a lot of work.
> >
> > Maybe the error is not really important.
> >
> > Anyone know anything?
> 
> Honestly if you're not sure for the reason of this message then
> you ought to leave it up to someone with more experiance securing
> programs than yourself.  Contact the mysql authors and complain to
> them.
> 
> --
> -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
> "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."
> 
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I've seen this a number of times also, most recently with xmms.  I think
he'd have to send a lot of complaining emails to a lot of different
people :)  Rob.


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