On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:23:09PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Wolfgang Kohnen writes:
> > Package: mailscanner
> > Version: 4.38.10-1
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: fhs
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > with the default configuration, mailscanner uses /tmp as the directory
> > holding pid and lock files.  Since these dirs are world writeable, this
> > is a security concern.  It should use /var/run/mailscanner instead. I 
> > think this bug should be fixed downstream and be reported upstream as 
> > well.
> 
> please elaborate, why you think that pid files are created in /tmp.

mailscanner-4.39.6/etc$ grep -r /tmp .
./MailScanner.conf:Lockfile Dir = /tmp

Justin


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