http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=967622 Bug ID: 967622 Summary: glibc is missing a shm_mkstemp() that is a secure version of shm_open() Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed Version: 2015* Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem Assignee: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: werner@suse.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de CC: schwab@suse.com Depends on: 967437 Found By: --- Blocker: --- It seems that there is no secure way to open a shared meory object in a secure way using the offcial POSIX shared memory API of the glibc as described in man:shm_overview(7). This was already reported on other places, e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620887 and also got implemented for openBSD: http://resin.csoft.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=3&topic=shm_open -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.