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CVE-2008-4957

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

Description

find_flags in Kitware GCC-XML (gccxml) 0.9.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/*.cxx temporary file.

Affected products

• Gccxml: 0.9.0

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/496391
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/gccxml
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46408
• http://bugs.debian.org/496391
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/gccxml
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46408

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