CVE detail
CVE-2008-4955 — CVE-2008-4955
Published 2008-11-05 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor duncan_webb · Product freevo · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0035
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
28.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
freevo.real in freevo 1.8.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/*-#####.pid, (2) /tmp/freevo-gdb, (3) /tmp/freevo-gdb.sh, and (4) /tmp/*.stats temporary files. NOTE: this issue is only a vulnerability when a verbose debug mode is activated by modifying source code.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References