Hello Maintainer and Upstream, This is related to BUG #276234
Greetings Michelle Am 2004-10-13 18:54:29, schrieb Helmut Waitzmann: > > Package: xterm > Version: 4.1.0-16woody1 > Severity: important > Tags: security > > > xterm removes the environment variable TMPDIR from the process environment: > > To reproduce the error, run the following command, which starts a xterm > showing the value of the TMPDIR environment variable: > > $ env TMPDIR=/tmp xterm -hold -e printenv TMPDIR > > As can be seen in that xterm: TMPDIR has no value. > > Compare it with the following variant, which shows the value of the tmpdir > environment variable: > > $ env tmpdir=/tmp xterm -hold -e printenv tmpdir > > This time, xterm displays the value, which is /tmp. > > > -- System Information > Debian Release: 3.0 > Architecture: i386 > Kernel: Linux kugelfisch 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE > > Versions of packages xterm depends on: > ii debconf 1.0.32 Debian configuration management > sy > ii libc6 2.2.5-11.5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > an > ii libfreetype6 2.0.9-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared > lib > ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal > hand > ii libxaw7 4.1.0-16woody1 X Athena widget set library > ii xlibs 4.1.0-16woody1 X Window System client libraries -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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