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re: Security patch for binutils-2.11.92.0.10
- To: "Steven J. Hill" <sjhill at realitydiluted dot com>
- subject: re: Security patch for binutils-2.11.92.0.10
- From: matthew green <mrg at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:51:57 +1100
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- organisation: Red Hat, Asia-Pacific.
Subject: Security patch for binutils-2.11.92.0.10
Attached please find some simple changes to make creation
of temporary files more secure. I just noticed it as a
warning when building binutils. Thanks.
this fix is not correct. mkstemp() returns a valid file
descriptor. if you're going to ignore it, you need to
close(2) it...
you should also include a ChangeLog entry with your patch.
thanks!
.mrg.