CVE-2007-4998

 

Published at: - 31-01-2008 10:00

Last modified: - 23-01-2023 07:44

Total changes: - 8

Description

cp, when running with an option to preserve symlinks on multiple OSes, allows local, user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack using crafted directories containing multiple source files that are copied to the same destination.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

 

Verification logic

 

Reference

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=356471
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2023
• 43228-

 

Keywords

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CVE-2007-4998

 

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