SuSE Essential and Critical Security Patch Updates - Page 819
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SuSE: 1999:0011-1 critical: Netscape Communicator process exploit
The Netscape Communicator 4.5 comes with "talkback", a quality enhancement tool by Fullcircle (www.fullcircle.com). If the communicator crashs for any reason, the file with the name /tmp/.$UID.talkback is read in, and the pid in this file is killed. After that, the file is truncated/created without checks for {sym|hard}links and the pid of the current talkback process is written into the file.
