CVE-2007-4998

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    CVE-2007-4998

    Published: 31 Jan 2008Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=356471, http://osvdb.org/43228, https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2023

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High