CVE-2008-4957: Gccxml

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

find_flags in Kitware GCC-XML (gccxml) 0.9.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/*.cxx temporary file.

Affected products

• Gccxml Gccxml: version 0.9.0 only

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