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insecure temp files in ob-screen.el

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 17416 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17416: [O] bug#17416: insecure temp files in ob-screen.el
Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 03:04:01 -0400

Eric Schulte wrote:

>> org-babel-screen-session-write-temp-file and org-babel-screen-test seem
>> to use predictable temp-file names, which is a security issue. Using
>> `make-temp-file', or if the file names really need to be predictable,
>> something equivalent to `doc-view-make-safe-dir' (there should really be
>> a general utility function for this IMO) to first create a /tmp
>> subdirectory would avoid this.
>
> I just pushed up a fix for this issue.  Thanks,

If you mean

http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/commit/?id=fea672d30ef4701721c0d4aa70462760a6b21be7

then's there still org-babel-screen-test.

(These are definitely fixes that need merging into the emacs-24 branch.
IIUC this means they need to be in your maint branch?)

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