CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-5704
7.6 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-12-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.6 HIGH — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
src/unit_test.c in gpsdrive (aka gpsdrive-scripts) 2.10~pre4 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/gpsdrive-unit-test/proc temporary file, a different vector than CVE-2008-4959 and CVE-2008-5380.
Affected configurations
• gpsdrive gpsdrive (<= 2.10)
• gpsdrive gpsdrive 1.32
• gpsdrive gpsdrive 1.33
• gpsdrive gpsdrive 2.09
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508597 bugs.debian.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/15 openwall.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508597 bugs.debian.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/15 openwall.com