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CVE-2008-4993

• 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: 2008-11-07 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

qemu-dm.debug in Xen 3.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/args temporary file.

Affected products

• xen: 3.2.1

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/496367
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/xen-utils-3.2-1
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:016
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0003.html
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235805
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46545
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9576
• http://bugs.debian.org/496367
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/xen-utils-3.2-1
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:016

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