Title: KDE libmediatool symlink Attack Vulnerability
Severity: LOW
Description:
Local users may create files as the user running KDE.
One of KDE's libraries, libmediatool, has a /tmp race problem. The problem is the way the library creates /tmp files. You can predict when a file will be created and create a symlink with the same name.
Affected Products:
- KDE KDE 1.1.0
- KDE KDE 1.1.1
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