Security issue in Terminal

[Kevin Chadwick]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 20:13:52 +0100
Guido Berhoerster wrote:

> It is unlinked before use and thus only accessible until the last
> file descriptor is closed.

Or those sectors are re-allocated without writing to them by an
attackers script/program creating a new file with the old data and world
readable permissions. It's possible that the code to do that needed
root or no longer works, but I don't think so. 

Either those sectors would need to be:

held untill shutdown: maybe

wiped: I very much doubt it

Blackholed: eventually you'd run out of sectors.