CVE-2008-5380 (GCVE-0-2008-5380)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-08 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:49
VLAI
Summary
gpsdrive (aka gpsdrive-scripts) 2.09 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an (a) /tmp/geo#####, a (b) /tmp/geocaching.loc, a (c) /tmp/geo#####.*, or a (d) /tmp/geo.* temporary file, related to the (1) geo-code and (2) geo-nearest scripts, different vectors than CVE-2008-4959.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/31694 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/33825 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg0… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2008-08-13 00:00
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