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Re: [oss-security] CVE id request: mktemp



Hi Thijs,
* Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org> [2008-08-19 12:27]:
> On Monday 18 August 2008 22:26, Nico Golde wrote:
> > * Steven M. Christey <coley@linus.mitre.org> [2008-08-18 22:09]:
> > > On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Nico Golde wrote:
> > > > This is known but as I wrote in the bug report:
> > > > "the file is safely created with O_EXCL and 0600, still
> > > > unsafe if used with -u"
> > >
> > > Given that -u is "unsafe mode" with a disclaimer against race conditions
> > > (at least based on the manpage I looked at), I'm of the mindset that
> > > you'd flag an application for using mktemp -u, but not mktemp itself.
> >
> > Ok fine, makes sense to me.
> 
> Should we remove the mktemp "temp issue" from the tracker or rather mark it as 
> no-dsa or unimportant?

Removed it, I think Steves suggestion is fine.

Cheers
Nico
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