Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 31, 2008· Updated Apr 23, 2026
CVE-2007-4998
CVE-2007-4998
Description
cp, when running with an option to preserve symlinks on multiple OSes, allows local, user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack using crafted directories containing multiple source files that are copied to the same destination.
Affected products
1Patches
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