> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > > To securely create a temp file in shell you need to use mktemp(1), or do
> > > something like (umask 077 && mkdir $TMPDIR/$$) to create a subdirectory.
> > > Needless to say, it's tricky.
> >
> > Wow, that symlink is a bad one. I don't see mktemp(1) on bsd/os, only
> > mktemp(3). I do see it on FreeBSD.
> >
> > Good thing I don't have other shell users on my system. I do cat
> > >/tmp/$$ all the time in scripts.
>
> I see we have temp file vulnerabilities in genbki.sh and Gen_fmgrtab.sh as
> well. I'll try to fix them.
What is the vulnerability? I see:
- if [ "$TMPDIR" ]; then- TEMPFILE="$TMPDIR/initdb.$$"- else- TEMPFILE="/tmp/initdb.$$"- fi
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