CVE-2007-5839: Insecure temporary file creation

[William Grant]

The e_hostname function (commands.c) uses tmpnam to create a temporary file which is known to be insecure.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

Yes, LP's web interface sucks.

  affects ubuntu/dapper/ircii-pana
  status confirmed
  importance medium

  affects ubuntu/edgy/ircii-pana
  status confirmed
  importance medium

  affects ubuntu/feisty/ircii-pana
  status confirmed
  importance medium

  affects ubuntu/gutsy/ircii-pana
  status confirmed
  importance medium

  affects ubuntu/hardy/ircii-pana
  status confirmed
  importance medium

[William Grant (wgrant)]

No longer in hardy.

[Hew (hew)]

Ubuntu Edgy Eft is no longer supported, so a SRU will not be issued for this release. Marking Edgy as Won't Fix.

[LumpyCustard (orangelumpycustard)]

Please close for Feisty as Won't Fix? This goes for all the other Feisty bugs.

[Hew (hew)]

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn is no longer supported, so a SRU will not be issued for this release. Marking Feisty as Won't Fix.

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

The 18 month support period for Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 has reached its end of life -
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-7.10-eol . As a result, we are closing the
Gutsy task.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. dapper has reached EOL
(End of Life) and is no longer supported. As a result, this bug
against dapper is being marked "Won't Fix". Please see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases for currently supported Ubuntu
releases.

Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.