In newer glibc's (versions > 2.06) reasonably secure permissions of 0600 are used when creating a temporary file with mkstemp(). But for older glibc's (versions <= 2.06) 0666 is used which is not secure.
To ensure that the temporary files created always have reasonably secure permissions, add a call to umask() that ensures we always set at most 0600 on the temporary file (and then restore the umask again so we don't interfere with anything that hapens further on). Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <j...@chaosbits.net> --- scripts/unifdef.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/unifdef.c b/scripts/unifdef.c index 7493c0e..f9188fb 100644 --- a/scripts/unifdef.c +++ b/scripts/unifdef.c @@ -342,9 +342,10 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) "%.*s/" TEMPLATE, (int)(dirsep - ofilename), ofilename); else - snprintf(tempname, sizeof(tempname), - TEMPLATE); + snprintf(tempname, sizeof(tempname), TEMPLATE); + mode_t mask = umask(S_IXUSR | S_IRWXG | S_IRWXO); ofd = mkstemp(tempname); + umask(mask); if (ofd != -1) output = fdopen(ofd, "wb+"); if (output == NULL) -- 1.7.11.4 -- Jesper Juhl <j...@chaosbits.net> http://www.chaosbits.net/ Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/