Hello Maintainer and Upstream,
This is related to BUG #276234
Greetings
Michelle
Am 2004-10-13 18:54:29, schrieb Helmut Waitzmann:
>
> Package: xterm
> Version: 4.1.0-16woody1
> Severity: important
> Tags: security
>
>
> xterm removes the environment variable TMPDIR from the process environment:
>
> To reproduce the error, run the following command, which starts a xterm
> showing the value of the TMPDIR environment variable:
>
> $ env TMPDIR=/tmp xterm -hold -e printenv TMPDIR
>
> As can be seen in that xterm: TMPDIR has no value.
>
> Compare it with the following variant, which shows the value of the tmpdir
> environment variable:
>
> $ env tmpdir=/tmp xterm -hold -e printenv tmpdir
>
> This time, xterm displays the value, which is /tmp.
>
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: 3.0
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux kugelfisch 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE
>
> Versions of packages xterm depends on:
> ii debconf 1.0.32 Debian configuration management sy
> ii libc6 2.2.5-11.5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii libfreetype6 2.0.9-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
> ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand
> ii libxaw7 4.1.0-16woody1 X Athena widget set library
> ii xlibs 4.1.0-16woody1 X Window System client libraries
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