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# Blog posts tagged *"tmpwatcher"*

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[Mike Salvatore](https://canonical.com/blog/author/mikesalvatore)

27 August 2020

### [Spotting /tmp related vulnerabilities with TmpWatcher](https://canonical.com/blog/spotting-tmp-related-vulnerabilities-with-tmpwatcher)

Ubuntu

Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

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