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CVE-2007-5495

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 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: 2008-05-23 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

sealert in setroubleshoot 2.0.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the sealert.log temporary file.

Affected products

• Selinux Setroubleshoot: 2.0.5

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/30339
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1020077
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0061.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29320
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=288221
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42591
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9705
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30339
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1020077
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0061.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29320
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=288221

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