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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.
Publish Date : 2008-01-31 Last Update Date : 2008-11-15
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CVSS Scores & Vulnerability Types
CVSS Score |
6.9 |
Confidentiality Impact |
Complete
(There is total information disclosure, resulting in all system files being revealed.) |
Integrity Impact |
Complete
(There is a total compromise of system integrity. There is a complete loss of system protection, resulting in the entire system being compromised.) |
Availability Impact |
Complete
(There is a total shutdown of the affected resource. The attacker can render the resource completely unavailable.) |
Access Complexity |
Medium
(The access conditions are somewhat specialized. Some preconditions must be satistified to exploit) |
Authentication |
Not required
(Authentication is not required to exploit the vulnerability.) |
Gained Access |
None |
Vulnerability Type(s) |
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CWE ID |
59 |
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Vendor Statements
This issue affects the busybox package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5,
This issue affects the fileutils package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1.
This issue affects the coreutils package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
The coreutils package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 are not vulnerable to this issue.
Given this issue has minimal risk we do not intend to issues updates to correct this issue in affected versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
For more information please see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=356471
Source:
Redhat
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Products Affected By CVE-2007-4998
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Number Of Affected Versions By Product
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References For CVE-2007-4998
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Metasploit Modules Related To CVE-2007-4998
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