CVE-2008-4997

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

Description

dfxml-invoice in datafreedom-perl 0.1.7 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/zenity temporary file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, stating that the vector is solely "an EXAMPLE used in the manpage.

Affected products

Pilot-Qof Datafreedom-Perl: 0.1.7

References

http://bugs.debian.org/496429
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/datafreedom-perl
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
http://bugs.debian.org/496429
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/datafreedom-perl
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770

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