[kaffe] File.createTempFile() creates files in /tmp with mode 0666!

Dalibor Topic robilad@yahoo.com
Fri Mar 7 03:55:01 2003


Hi Mark,

--- Mark J Roberts <mjr@znex.org> wrote:
> Creating /tmp files with mode 0666 is insane. Other
> users should
> never be able to read or write to your temp files!

thanks, I've checked the patch in.

If you want to look out for other security problems,
it would be interesting to run a static analyser tool
like RATS [1], Flawfinder [2], PScan [3], SPlint [4],
ITS4 [5], or uno [6] on kaffe's sources.

cheers,
dalibor topic

[1] http://www.securesoftware.com/download_rats.htm
[2] http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder/
[3] http://www.striker.ottawa.on.ca/~aland/pscan/
[4] http://splint.org/
[5] http://www.cigital.com/its4/
[6] http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/what/uno/index.html


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