From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 19858@debbugs.gnu.org, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
Subject: bug#19858: 25.0.50; Docstring bug in make-temp-name
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:46:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk2zfyja7.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f0pp98kw17.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:33:56 -0500")
>> make-temp-file can also create a temp file in the user's home directory
>> (so your criticism also applies to the first point).
>> The issue is simply that in cases other than the above two, using
>> make-temp-name is *dangerous*.
> Why's it not dangerous in HOME?
Presumably, HOME is only writable by yourself, so you can presume that
there's no attacker trying play race-condition tricks on you in there to
try and get to run code under your UID.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-18 3:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-13 21:57 bug#19858: 25.0.50; Docstring bug in make-temp-name Marcin Borkowski
2015-02-14 4:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-17 22:33 ` Glenn Morris
2015-02-18 3:46 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-02-20 5:42 ` Glenn Morris
2015-02-20 17:15 ` Stefan Monnier
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