CVE-2007-4998 (GCVE-0-2007-4998)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-01-31 20:00
Modified
2024-08-07 15:17
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
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.
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