Pine's re-occuring nightmare

jericho@DIMENSIONAL.COM
Mon, 01 Sep 1997 04:53:58 -0600

(sorry if this has been posted.. i haven't seen anything about it yet)
(If memory serves, Sean @ Litterbox was the first to write up a problem
report and post it here.. his original 'advisory' covers this problem.
just sub in the new version number. :)

As we all know from past posts, Pine 3.91 - 3.94 had a problem where it
threw down a temporary file in /tmp that was based off its PID. The file
was mode 666 creating a symlink problem. 3.95 came out and fixed this
problem.

3.96 has the same thing. I have 3.96 running on a Linux (Slack 3.3) box,
and have verified it on a Sun 4.1.4 box as well. In both cases, the
temporary files were PID based, and mode 666 like before.

Guess this means every odd release will be more secure? :)

- Damien