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Gentoo GLSA-200710-22 Normal: TRAMP Insecure Temp File Creation

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Calendar Grey October 20, 2007
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The potential risk associated with the inadequate generation of transient files in TRAMP for GNU Emacs raises concerns about local exploitation that could compromise the integrity of files.
The TRAMP package for GNU Emacs insecurely creates temporary files.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200710-22 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: TRAMP: Insecure temporary file creation Date: October 20, 2007 Bugs: #194713 ID: 200710-22

Synopsis ======= The TRAMP package for GNU Emacs insecurely creates temporary files.
Background ========= TRAMP is a remote file editing package for GNU Emacs, a highly extensible and customizable text editor.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-emacs/tramp < 2.1.10-r2 >= 2.1.10-r2 *< 2.1
========== Stefan Monnier discovered that the tramp-make-tramp-temp-file() function creates temporary files ...

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