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

The named maintainer script appears to access a file or a directory in `/tmp` or a similar folder for temporary data. Working directly in such folders, which are usually world-writable, can easily lead to serious security or privacy bugs.

Please consider using the `mktemp` utility from the `coreutils` package when creating temporary files or directories.

Severity: | `warning`
Experimental: | `false`

## See also

- Scripts (Section 10.4) in the Debian Policy Manual

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag