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Whenever I display an image from stdin, like this:

$ cat myfile.jpg | display -

"display" creates temp files in the current directory, no matter how I set ImageMagick's environment variables MAGICK_TMPDIR, MAGICK_TEMPORARY_PATH, etc. This would appear to be a bug.

The temp files have names like "magickh9EMwm". I can see them getting created by monitoring the directory:

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$ inotifywait -m -e create mydirectory

This is on Ubuntu 14.04. Version info:

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$ display --version
Version: ImageMagick 6.7.7-10 2014-03-06 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2012 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: OpenMP

If true this is a huge security bug

I see no such behavior in IM 6.9.1.10 Q16 Mac OSX Snow Leopard. No temp file is created in the current directory as far as I can tell. IM 6.7.7.10 is about 140 versions old. This issue has probably been long fixed. Try the command on a newer version of IM or perhaps upgrade.

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Temp files always created in current directory when image is read from stdin

Temp files always created in current directory when image is read from stdin

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