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Message-ID: <20171101180222.5j6wqmmqakwvu72q@jwilk.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 19:02:22 +0100
From: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@...lk.net>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Fw: Security risk of vim swap files
* Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com>, 2017-11-01, 11:31:
>Code and scripts certainly need to check TMPDIR
Unfortunately, glibc's implementation of tmpfile(3), which is the most
fool-proof interface for dealing with temporary files that the C library
offers, doesn't honour TMPDIR. :(
BTW, there's a preloadable library that catches writes to /tmp:
https://github.com/paultag/tmperamental
--
Jakub Wilk
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