CVE-2008-4949: Manoj Srivastava Dist

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

dist 3.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/cil#####, (b) /tmp/pdo#####, and (c) /tmp/pdn##### temporary files, related to the (1) patcil and (2) patdiff scripts.

Affected products

• Manoj Srivastava Dist: version 3.5 only

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