rawhide report: 20090523 changes

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue May 26 16:48:39 UTC 2009


Kevin Kofler (kevin.kofler at chello.at) said: 
> Yet another insecure temporary file vulnerability. Why do we still not
> polyinstantiate /tmp by default? We're wasting lots of time on security
> measures which keep breaking apps such as SELinux, but simple things like
> polyinstantiation are still not used, why? This code would be perfectly
> safe if polyinstantiation was mandatory. Why are we stuck in the 1970s?

... send patches? It's techncially feasible, but no one's done the
legwork to integrate it fully yet. (xguest goes a bit beyond what
we'd want by default.)

Bill




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