CVE-2008-4955

2022-10-0316:13:59

mitre

www.cve.org

freevo

local users

arbitrary files

symlink attack

temporary files

debug mode vulnerability

AI Score

6.3

Confidence

Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

freevo.real in freevo 1.8.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/-#####.pid, (2) /tmp/freevo-gdb, (3) /tmp/freevo-gdb.sh, and (4) /tmp/.stats temporary files. NOTE: this issue is only a vulnerability when a verbose debug mode is activated by modifying source code.