Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.8
Severity: normal
W: tetex-bin: possibly-insecure-handling-of-tmp-files-in-maintainer-script
postinst:28
This line reads:
: ${MKTMPDIR:=/tmp}
and in fact the variable MKTMPDIR is only used in invocations of mktemp
with option -p.
Maybe we should change the code to something like
: ${MKTMPDIR:=$TMPDIR}
: ${MKTMPDIR:=/tmp}
but the current code is *not* insecure.
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
