insecure temporary file creation

["Matthew Sherborne" <Matthews@softtech.co.nz>]

I just wanted to bring this to that attention of those who care...

Because there were quite a few insecure temp file creation reports a while
ago, perhaps some of us should use this tool to find more ASAP.

It was in the fresh meat mailing list:

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[012] - Eliott 1.0 (Stable)
  by j (http://freshmeat.net/users/frankdenis/)
Monday, February 5th 2001 16:51

Eliott is a tool to help system administrators and programmers discover
insecure temporary file creation, even in closed-source applications. It
watches a directory for file creation/deletion/writes using the dnotify
facility of Linux 2.4.x . Every change is logged, even temporary files with
a very short lifetime. In addition to logging, Eliott can simulate
hard-link exploits in order to find and report vulnerable applications.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/eliott/

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GBY