Re: LYNX-DEV /tmp files?

[Philip Webb]

980316 Jonathan Bobin wrote: 
> I've noticed that lynx creates temporary files like this in /tmp:
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          985 Mar 11 15:08 L24915TMP.html
> 
> does anyone think that mister or misses root can be downloading an html
> file and someone could symlink a bunch of L*TMP.html files to /etc/passwd? 
 
there was a big security flap 1997 around something very like this:
have a look in the Archive; that one was fixed for 2-7-2 & 2-8.

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