CVE-2007-4998

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jan 31, 2008
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Sep 20, 2007

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

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

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