CVE-2007-4998

Description

From CVE.org

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.

Statement

This issue affects the busybox package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5,

This issue affects the fileutils package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1.

This issue affects the coreutils package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

The coreutils package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 are not vulnerable to this issue.

Given this issue has minimal risk we do not intend to issues updates to correct this issue in affected versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

For more information please see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=356471

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