That's odd.. really odd. You may want to fix(?) (read: upgrade) your library that contains that.. but no, i don't believe it's a problem, unless it's trying to write to it beforehand (soft link to a sensative file by a malicious user could be bad).. or unless some other program is using that temporary file and your program removes it. Try upgrading the library.. or reinstall the library, something. -Brandon At 06:11 PM 7/29/2002, Matthew Hannigan wrote: >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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