CVEs-PoC/2008/CVE-2008-4997.md

CVE-2008-4997

Description

** DISPUTED ** dfxml-invoice in datafreedom-perl 0.1.7 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/zenity temporary file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, stating that the vector is solely "an EXAMPLE used in the manpage."

POC

Reference

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

Github

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