CVE-2008-4975: Debian Newsgate

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

mkmailpost in newsgate 1.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/mmp##### temporary file.

Affected products

• Debian Newsgate: version 1.6 only

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