CVE-2008-2958: Checkinstall

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in (1) checkinstall 1.6.1 and (2) installwatch allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and have other impacts via symlink and possibly other attacks on temporary working directories.

Affected products

• Checkinstall Checkinstall: version 1.6.1 only

Published 2008-07-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.