CVE-2007-4998: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: any version

Published 2008-01-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.