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Temporary file of predictable name, whose size growth over time can be significant #5

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debrouxl opened this issue Aug 19, 2019 · 0 comments

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While fuzzing the library, as described in #4, I noticed the usage of /tmp/GDSIIConvert.log. This isn't good, for two reasons:

  • it's a "temporary file of predictable name", in a shared directory which is world-writable in some setups. This is usually considered a vulnerability, for reasons that the Internet explains better than I do;
  • GDSIIConvert writes enough data there to fill gigabytes in several hours, filling up my HDD... not good, I simply put a rm; sleep invocation in a loop to fix that, but that's ugly :)
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