Vulnerability in Manoj Srivastava Dist

CVE-2008-4949

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.

EPSS: 0.004 (31.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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