Stan Bubrouski contacted jwz the maintainer of xscreensaver and cc'd Red Hat security folks on 20031031 to report an insecure temporary file flaw introduced in xscreensaver version 4.14. This was due to a bit of debugging code that got left in by mistake, it was removed in 4.15, and therefore didn't affect any RHEL releases. This was CVE-2003-0885. However SUSE then found some other suspect temporary file issues which also got silently fixed in 4.15 release. I've applied for a CVE name for these.
Created attachment 124968 [details] Proposed patch as used by SUSE
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