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Message-ID: <20151227082521.GA31078@eldamar.local>
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 09:25:21 +0100
From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>
To: OSS Security Mailinglist <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Cc: CVE Assignments MITRE <cve-assign@...re.org>,
	Steve Kemp <steve@...ve.org.uk>,
	Rob Browning <rlb@...aultvalue.org>
Subject: CVE Request: Stalin: Insecure use of temporary files

Hi,

Steve Kemp discovered that Stalin, an optimizing compiler for Scheme,
insecurely uses temporary files which have a fixed name. This was
reported in Debian as #808730[1].

Could you please assign a CVE for this issue?

 [1] https://bugs.debian.org/808730

Regards,
Salvatore

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