I should have been a little clearer. Those are literal X's. It attempts to remove the _exact same file_ every time. That's what I meant by tmpnam gone wrong. Matt Brandon Erhart wrote: > if those 'X's are "psuedo-random" characters, and they change each time, > i'm pretty sure you're safe. Unless the file is important or gets > overwritten while linked to an important file, nothing bad should happen > (I think??). > > -Brandon > > At 09:35 AM 7/29/2002, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > >> I found a program which removes >> a file named like /tmp/appXXXXXX. Seems >> to be a tmpnam attempt gone wrong. >> >> Does this make the system vulnerable? >> The program is run by root as often as >> not. >> >> Matt >> > > . >
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