[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Bug#601323: marked as done (lintian: false positive possibly-insecure-handling-of-tmp-files-in-maintainer-script)

Your message dated Thu, 28 Dec 2017 10:42:22 +0000
with message-id <1514457742.2511104.1217734408.5F789584@webmail.messagingengine.com>
and subject line Re: lintian: false positive possibly-insecure-handling-of-tmp-files-in-maintainer-script
has caused the Debian Bug report #601323,
regarding lintian: false positive possibly-insecure-handling-of-tmp-files-in-maintainer-script
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org
immediately.)


-- 
601323: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=601323
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
--- Begin Message --- 
Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.3
Severity: minor


For package totd lintian reports:

    W: totd: possibly-insecure-handling-of-tmp-files-in-maintainer-script postinst:18

Code in debian/postinst reads:

     1  #! /bin/sh
     2  # postinst script for totd
     3  #
     4  # see: dh_installdeb(1)
     5  
     6  set -e
     7  
     8  . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
     9  db_version 2.0
    10  
    11  ETC_DEFAULT_TOTD="/etc/default/totd"
    12  
    13  case "$1" in
    14      configure)
    15  
    16          db_get totd/use_ipv6 && use_ipv6="$RET"
    17  
    18          TEMPL="/tmp/totd.default.XXXXXXX"
    19          TEMPFILE=`mktemp $TEMPL`
    20          sed -e "s/^\(OPTION=\)\(.*\)//g; /^$/d" \
    21                  $ETC_DEFAULT_TOTD > $TEMPFILE
    ...


SUGGESTION:

Perhaps the regexp could exempt names that contain uppercase XXXX
letters.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils               2.20.1-15         The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat               1.53-1            produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev               1.15.8.5          Debian package development tools
ii  file                   5.04-5            Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                0.18.1.1-3        GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian        0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libapt-pkg-perl        0.1.24+b1         Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1            Perl module that automatically gen
ii  libipc-run-perl        0.89-1            Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2.1         parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl       1.2000-1          collection of modules to manipulat
ii  liburi-perl            1.54-1            module to manipulate and access UR
ii  locales                2.11.2-6          Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii  man-db                 2.5.7-4           on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-15         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
ii  libtext-template-perl         1.45-1     Text::Template perl module
ii  man-db                        2.5.7-4    on-line manual pager

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 2.5.66

--- End Message ---
Reply to: