CVE-2008-4936: Gert Doering Mgetty

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

faxspool in mgetty 1.1.36 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/faxsp.##### temporary file.

Affected products

• Gert Doering Mgetty: version 1.1.36 only

Published 2008-11-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.