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Mike Salvatore

Mike Salvatore

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ESM Tech Lead/Security Engineer


Mike Salvatore
27 August 2020

Spotting /tmp related vulnerabilities with TmpWatcher

Ubuntu Article

Did you know that misuse of the /tmp directory is one of the most common security flaws? If you search mitre for the keyword “tmp”, you’ll find a plethora of vulnerabilities (529 at the time of this writing). Because /tmp is a world-writable directory, applications need to be very careful about how they create and ...