CVE-2007-4998

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.

🔗 References (6)

• secalert@redhathttp://osvdb.org/43228
• secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=356471
• secalert@redhathttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2023
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://osvdb.org/43228
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=356471
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2023