A vulnerability has been identified in Berkeley MPEG Tools, which may be exploited by malicious users to conduct symlink attacks. The problem is due to errors in "mpeg_encode", "eyuvtojpeg", "vidtoeyuv", "vidtojpeg", "vidtoppm", and "eyuvtoppm", and the Makefile for the "test" make target that create temporary files insecurely in "/tmp", which may be exploited by local attackers to overwrite or create arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the vulnerable application.
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Mike Frysinger
ChangeLog
2005-10-04 : Initial release
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