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TITLE:
vobcopy "/tmp/vobcopy.bla" Insecure Temporary File

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27420

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27420/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
vobcopy 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/16364/

DESCRIPTION:
Joey Hess has reported a security issue in vobcopy, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with
escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to vobcopy appending to
"/tmp/vobcopy.bla" when running in quiet mode. This can be exploited
via symlink attacks to append certain data to arbitrary files.

SOLUTION:
Do not run vobcopy in quiet mode. Restrict access to trusted people
only.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Joey Hess

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448319

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