Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 13:40:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Heffner <mheffner@mailandnews.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/16929: [PATCH] prevent possible race condition Message-ID: <200005172040.NAA91286@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/16929; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Mike Heffner <mheffner@mailandnews.com>
To: spock@techfour.net
Cc: vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/16929: [PATCH] prevent possible race condition
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 16:34:49 -0400 (EDT)
On 16-May-2000 Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
| >
| >sort can create the following predictable tempfiles:
| >/tmp/sort{pid}{seq}
|
| It appears that the security implications of this have already been
| fixed in rev.1.11 of src/gnu/usr.bin/sort/sort.c.
|
yes, i suppose they have been. however, as sort can create multiple tempfiles it
was suggested that they be kept in one directory per sort process running (see
thread in -audit list), rather than dumping them all in the temp dir.
later,
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Mike Heffner <spock@techfour.net>
Fredericksburg, VA ICQ# 882073
http://my.ispchannel.com/~mheffner
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