docs/108346: tmpnam(3) should note that that TMPDIR env may be ignored
Anton Yuzhaninov
citrin at rambler-co.ru
Thu Jan 25 17:40:23 UTC 2007
>Number: 108346
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: tmpnam(3) should note that that TMPDIR env may be ignored
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 25 17:40:21 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Anton Yuzhaninov
>Release: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE amd64
>Organization:
Rambler
>Environment:
>Description:
tmpnam(3) should note that that tmpfile() ignore TMPDIR environment variable if
issetugid(3) return non zero.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Anything like this:
--- lib/libc/stdio/tmpnam.3.orig Thu Jan 25 20:02:50 2007
+++ lib/libc/stdio/tmpnam.3 Thu Jan 25 20:19:59 2007
@@ -156,6 +156,16 @@
.Dv NULL
pointer
on error.
+.Sh ENVIRONMENT
+The
+.Fn tmpfile
+ignores the
+.Ev TMPDIR
+environment variable if process created as a result of an
+.Xr execve 2
+system call which had either of the setuid or setgid bits set (and extra
+privileges were given as a result) or if it has changed any of its real,
+effective or saved user or group ID's since it began execution.
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
These interfaces are provided from System V and
.Tn ANSI
@@ -228,7 +238,8 @@
the FSA.)
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mkstemp 3 ,
-.Xr mktemp 3
+.Xr mktemp 3 ,
+.Xr issetugid 2
.Rs
.%T "The FreeBSD Security Architecture"
.Re
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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