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
--
  Thomas Biege, SuSE GmbH, Schanzaeckerstr. 10, 90443 Nuernberg
  E@mail: thomas@suse.de      Function: Security Support & Auditing
  "lynx -source  http://www.suse.de/~thomas/thomas.pgp | pgp -fka"
   Key fingerprint = 09 48 F2 FD 81 F7 E7 98  6D C7 36 F1 96 6A 12 47

SuSE: makewhatis not vulnerable

July 10, 2000
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
--
  Thomas Biege, SuSE GmbH, Schanzaeckerstr. 10, 90443 Nuernberg
  E@mail: thomas@suse.de      Function: Security Support & Auditing
  "lynx -source  http://www.suse.de/~thomas/thomas.pgp | pgp -fka"
   Key fingerprint = 09 48 F2 FD 81 F7 E7 98  6D C7 36 F1 96 6A 12 47

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