[16247] in bugtraq
[suse-security-announce] makewhatis bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthias Kaempf)
Tue Aug 15 14:38:58 2000
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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 20:02:08 +0200
Reply-To: Matthias Kaempf <Matthias.Kaempf@DREI-H.DE>
From: Matthias Kaempf <Matthias.Kaempf@DREI-H.DE>
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To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Hi,
a few days ago a /tmp race condition bug in the makewhatis program was
posted on bugtraq.
We are NOT vulnerable by this bug, because we use different code, which
doesn't touch /tmp in a unsecure way.
Bye,
Thomas
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