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.
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