CVE-2008-4993: Xen

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

qemu-dm.debug in Xen 3.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/args temporary file.

Affected products

• Xen Xen: version 3.2.1 only

Published 2008-11-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.