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SuSE: Makewhatis Not Vulnerable To /tmp Race Condition Bug

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Calendar Grey July 10, 2000
Dist Suse Esm H88
Mitigate the /tmp race condition in make utility on SuSE by avoiding insecure temp file practices.
makewhatis from man package reported to not be vulnerable to /tmp race condition bug.

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From: Thomas Biege <thomas@suse.de>
Subject: [suse-security-announce] makewhatis bug

Hi,
a few days ago a /tmp race condition bug in the makewhatis program was
posted on bugtraq.
We are NOT vulnerable by this bug, because we use different code, which
doesn't touch /tmp in a unsecure way.

Bye,
     Thomas
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security advisory SuSE bug fix race condition makewhatis

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