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makewhatis bug

From: thomas () SUSE DE (Thomas Biege)
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:50:48 +0200


Hi,
a few days ago a /tmp race condition bug in the makewhatis program was
posted on bugtraq.
We are NOT vulnerable by this bug, because we use different code, which
doesn't touch /tmp in a unsecure way.

Bye,
     Thomas

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