CVE-2008-4968: Bitmover Lmbench

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

The (1) rccs and (2) STUFF scripts in lmbench 3.0-a7 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/sdiff.##### temporary file.

Affected products

• Bitmover Lmbench: version 3.0-a7 only

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