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Bug#276417: xterm removes variable TMPDIR from the child's process environment



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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