CVE-2007-4998 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

69%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 17 years ago

2008-01-31 21:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-11-15 06:59:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel

References

43228

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=356471

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2023

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