CVEs-PoC/2008/CVE-2008-4982.md

### [CVE-2008-4982](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4982)
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### Description

rkhunter in rkhunter 1.3.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/rkhunter-debug temporary file. NOTE: this is probably a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1270.

### POC

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

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.