CVE-2008-4955 describes a local file overwrite vulnerability in freevo 1.8.1, specifically within the freevo.real component. An attacker can exploit this via a symlink attack on various temporary files in /tmp, leading to arbitrary file overwrite. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.2 (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but with high attack complexity and requiring local access. Importantly, this issue is only exploitable when a verbose debug mode is activated by modifying the source code. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:duncan_webb:freevo:1.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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