diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1ead0edd7..bdd784a7a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sun Dec  9 11:43:03 EET 2007 (edwin)
+------------------------------------
+  * shared/misc.c: pass mode to open with O_CREAT. 
+  Avoids build failure with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 on gcc4.3 with glibc 2.7.
+
 Fri Dec  7 08:56:02 GMT 2007 (trog)
 -----------------------------------
   * libclamav/scanners.c: fixup return value.
diff --git a/shared/misc.c b/shared/misc.c
index e88c030d2..f1e808d00 100644
--- a/shared/misc.c
+++ b/shared/misc.c
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ int filecopy(const char *src, const char *dest)
     if((s = open(src, O_RDONLY|O_BINARY)) == -1)
 	return -1;
 
-    if((d = open(dest, O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC|O_BINARY)) == -1) {
+    if((d = open(dest, O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC|O_BINARY, 0644)) == -1) {
 	close(s);
 	return -1;
     }