CVE-2007-5718

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-10-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

vobcopy 0.5.14 allows local users to append data to an arbitrary file, or create an arbitrary new file, via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/vobcopy.bla or (2) /tmp/vobcopy_0.5.14.log temporary file.

Affected products

Vobcopy: 0.5.14

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448319
http://osvdb.org/41997
http://secunia.com/advisories/27420
http://secunia.com/advisories/29259
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-11.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26233
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38172
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448319
http://osvdb.org/41997
http://secunia.com/advisories/27420
http://secunia.com/advisories/29259
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-11.xml

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