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CVE-2008-4954

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 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: 2008-11-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

mead.pl in fml 4.0.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/debugbuf temporary file.

Affected products

• Fumitoshi Ukai Fml: 4.0.3

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/496370
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/fml
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30903
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
• http://bugs.debian.org/496370
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/fml
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30903
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770

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