Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 03:23:44 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Chris Wasser <cwasser@v-wave.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: oddness in -current Message-ID: <v04210114b4e91ac8525f@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20000306001706.A32145@area51.v-wave.com> References: <20000306001706.A32145@area51.v-wave.com>
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At 12:17 AM -0700 3/6/00, Chris Wasser wrote: >I was just watching a buildworld happen when I noticed (specifically >in gcc, and a few other places) the following warning several times: > >warning: mktemp() possibly used unsafely; consider using mkstemp() > >I'm not sure if it's a big deal or not, but in the interests of >satisfying my own interests, I thought I would mention it. If this >has been covered already in this list, then please disregard. Next >time I'll capture the entire build process to a file. This probably has not been discussed a lot on current, but the freebsd-audit group has been trying to track down and change all uses of mktemp which might lead to any kind of security problem. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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