CVE-2008-4982: John Horne Rkhunter

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

rkhunter in rkhunter 1.3.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/rkhunter-debug temporary file. NOTE: this is probably a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1270.

Affected products

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