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CVE-2007-4998

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4998

Severity

Unknown
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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.

References

  • https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4998

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