CVE-2008-4955: Duncan Webb Freevo

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

freevo.real in freevo 1.8.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/*-#####.pid, (2) /tmp/freevo-gdb, (3) /tmp/freevo-gdb.sh, and (4) /tmp/*.stats temporary files. NOTE: this issue is only a vulnerability when a verbose debug mode is activated by modifying source code.

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