PT-2008-1460 · Gnu · Cp

Published 2008-01-31 · Updated 2008-11-15 · CVE-2007-4998

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions cp (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows local, user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack. This can be achieved by using crafted directories containing multiple source files that are copied to the same destination, when the cp command is run with an option to preserve symlinks on multiple OSes.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

AZL-34843

AZL-6512

CVE-2007-4998

Affected Products

Cp

References · 9

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2007-4998 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4998 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-34843 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-6512 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-4998 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-4998 · Vendor Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/43228 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=356471 · Note
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2023 · Note