CVEs-PoC/2008/CVE-2008-4950.md

CVE-2008-4950

Description

** DISPUTED ** gccross in dpkg-cross 2.3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the tmp/gccross2.log temporary file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, stating that "There is no sense in this bug - the script ... is called under specific cross-building environments within a chroot."

POC

Reference

• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770

Github

• https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds