Re: [Full-disclosure] Symlink vulnerabilities

[Leon Kaiser <literalka@xxxxxxxxx>]

May I ask what the grep(1) pattern was?
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On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 07:54 -0400, bugs@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I apologize as my search wasn't a complex method, just a quick grep for
> signs of /tmp misuse. Indeed creating a directory under /tmp is a safeway
> to handle tmp files.
> 
> > bugs@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>
> >> bashbug:
> >>
> >> /usr/bin/bashbug:TEMPDIR=$TMPDIR/bbug.$$
> >>
> >> Maybe I should use bashbug to report a bug in bashbug?
> >>
> >
> > I took a quick look, it's actually using mkdir to create a temporary
> > directory in /tmp, which it uses for collecting support files.
> >
> > This is actually a safe way to use /tmp, assuming you check the return
> > code
> > of mkdir (which it does). The mkdir() system call behaves very differently
> > to open(), and is not vulnerable to these attacks.
> >
> > Tavis.
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