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Date:         Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:50:48 +0200
From: Thomas Biege <thomas@SUSE.DE>
Subject:      makewhatis bug
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM

Hi,
a few days ago a /tmp race condition bug in the makewhatis program was
posted on bugtraq.
We are NOT vulnerable by this bug, because we use different code, which
doesn't touch /tmp in a unsecure way.

Bye,
     Thomas
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