possibly-insecure-handling-of-tmp-files-in-maintainer-script

All reports of possibly-insecure-handling-of-tmp-files-in-maintainer-script for the archive. The extended description of this tag is:

The maintainer script seems to access a file in /tmp or some other temporary directory. Since creating temporary files in a world-writable directory is very dangerous, this is likely to be a security bug. Use the tempfile or mktemp utilities to create temporary files in these directories.

Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 10.4 (Scripts) for details.

Severity: normal, Certainty: possible

Check: scripts, Type: binary

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