CVE-2008-5144: Federico Di Gregorio NVIDIA-Cg-Toolkit

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

nvidia-cg-toolkit-installer in nvidia-cg-toolkit 2.0.0015 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/nvidia-cg-toolkit-manifest temporary file.

Affected products

• Federico Di Gregorio NVIDIA-Cg-Toolkit: version 2.0.0015 only

Published 2008-11-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.