Bug 36237 - Nedit uses tmpnam for temp files
Summary: Nedit uses tmpnam for temp files
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Powertools
Classification: Retired
Component: nedit
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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Keywords: Security
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-04-17 10:52 UTC by Jarno Huuskonen
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-04-17 10:52:49 UTC

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Description Jarno Huuskonen 2001-04-17 10:52:45 UTC 
Nedit uses tmpnam for creating temporary filenames. The file is then
opened with fopen --> tmprace

OpenBSD seems to have a patch for this (replace tmpnam/fopen with
mkstemp/fdopen)

Also I found this little info about from nedit mailinglist archive:
http://www.nedit.org/archives/develop/2001-Feb/0391.html

(Short summary: nedit's incremental save and backup files (.bck) are
created in cwd and nedit follows symlinks.)
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-05-08 12:39:35 UTC 
Errata released.
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