magicfilter race condition

[Rainer Dorsch <rainer@rainer.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Hi David,

I upgraded our print server from bo to hamm. Since then, we see race 
conditions when printing ascii files (the filter entry is

default                 filter  /usr/bin/enscript 

Sending ascii files to the printer (lpr *.h) results in a random number of 
files printed. It is neither clear (=reproducible) which files are printed nor 
how many.


Converting them to postscript works fine. We are using lprng.


It looks somewhat like the problem which is supposed to be fixed:

  * Fix /tmp-exploits bug reported by Thomas Rössler (Bug#21251:
    magicfilter: magicfilter-1.2 contains a tmpnam() race condition).
    He also donated the patch (thanks!).

Rainer.