CVE-2007-4998 Information

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.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/43228 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=356471 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2023