CVE-2007-4462

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-08-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

lib/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm in po4a before 0.32 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the gettextization.failed.po temporary file.

Affected products

Po4A: through 0.31

References

http://alioth.debian.org/frs/shownotes.php?release_id=1019
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189440
http://secunia.com/advisories/26492
http://secunia.com/advisories/26810
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-04.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25402
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253541
http://alioth.debian.org/frs/shownotes.php?release_id=1019
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189440
http://secunia.com/advisories/26492
http://secunia.com/advisories/26810
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-04.xml

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