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CVE-2008-5703 (GCVE-0-2008-5703)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-22 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 11:04
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Summary
gpsdrive (aka gpsdrive-scripts) 2.10~pre4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (a) /tmp/.smswatch or (b) /tmp/gpsdrivepos temporary file, related to (1) examples/gpssmswatch and (2) src/splash.c, different vectors than CVE-2008-4959 and CVE-2008-5380.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/15 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32887 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=det… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/31694 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508597 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/33825 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2008-12-16 00:00
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