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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-02 Normal: Advanced Codec Suite Risk in Unsafe Setup

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Calendar Grey October 3, 2005
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Enhance your Berkeley MPEG Utilities to address the threat from vulnerable temp files that can result in the alteration of user permissions.
The Berkeley MPEG Tools use temporary files in various insecure ways, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200510-02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Berkeley MPEG Tools: Multiple insecure temporary files Date: October 03, 2005 Bugs: #107344 ID: 200510-02

Synopsis ======= The Berkeley MPEG Tools use temporary files in various insecure ways, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files.
Background ========= The Berkeley MPEG Tools are a collection of utilities for manipulating MPEG video technology, including an encoder (mpeg_encode) and various conversion utilities.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-video/mpeg-tools < 1.5b-r2 >= 1.5b-r2
========== Mike Frysinger of the Gentoo...

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