cve/2008/CVE-2008-4955.md

### [CVE-2008-4955](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4955)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.