CVE-2007-4998 (GCVE-0-2007-4998)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-01-31 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:17
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1082 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2023 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=356471 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://osvdb.org/43228 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Date Public
2008-01-22 00:00
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