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Message-ID: <20080818085956.GB29717@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:59:56 +0200
From: Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE id request: mktemp
BTW, mktemp(1) is using O_EXCL anyway, so I dont see
an issue. Additionally all of our scripts use
more than 6 X' as also shown in the
example section of the manpage. We are not going to
release updates for this non-issue.
l8er,
Sebastian
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:55:50PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
> Hi,
> mktemp (not the coreutils one) from
> ftp://ftp.mktemp.org/pub/mktemp/ is not generating fully
> random names. Steve, can you assign a CVE id to this?
>
> This is
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495193
> I wrote an explanation on why this happens, available on:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495193#30
>
> Kind regards
> Nico
>
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