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.
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