Hi... I'm just trying to build my latest version
of my TCPQuota, but lintian complains...
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[papadoc]$ lintian -i tcpquota_1.6.13-3_all.deb
W: tcpquota: possibly-insecure-handling-of-tmp-files-in-maintainer-script
postinst:66
N:
N: The maintainer script seems to access a file in /tmp or some other
N: temporary directory. Since creating temporary files in a
N: world-writable directory is very dangerous, this is likely to be a
N: security bug. It's suggested that you use the tempfile or mktemp
N: utilities to create temporary files in these directories.
N:
N: If this is just a misinterpretation of some code in your maintainer
N: script, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this so that this
N: error gets included in the overrides file for Lintian. (With that,
N: Lintian will ignore this bug in the future.)
N:
N: Have a look at Policy Manual, section 3.3.4 for details.
N:
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This is the line in the postinst:
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TMP_FILE=`mktemp -q /tmp/$0.XXXXXX`
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "$0: Can't create temp file, exiting..."
exit 1
fi
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What have I missed? (This is _EXACLY_ as it says in the 'mktemp' manual
page!!!)
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