CVEs-PoC/2008/CVE-2008-4949.md

### [CVE-2008-4949](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4949)
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### Description

dist 3.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/cil#####, (b) /tmp/pdo#####, and (c) /tmp/pdn##### temporary files, related to the (1) patcil and (2) patdiff scripts.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770

#### Github
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