Re: Possible make_oidjoins_check Security Issue

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:52:57PM +1000, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 06:18, Rod Taylor wrote:
> > http://secunia.com/advisories/12860/
> 
> This seems like a rather inconsequential problem, but it should be
> fixed. The first two ideas that come to mind: use temporary files in
> $PWD rather than /tmp, or create a subdirectory in /tmp to use for the
> temporary files.

Better, use mktemp(1).  The thread testing script already does it IIRC.

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