CVE-2008-4950: Debian Dpkg-Cross

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

gccross in dpkg-cross 2.3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the tmp/gccross2.log temporary file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, stating that "There is no sense in this bug - the script ... is called under specific cross-building environments within a chroot.

Affected products

• Debian Dpkg-Cross: version 2.3.0 only

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