PT-2008-6755 · Gpsdrive · Gpsdrive

Hamish B · Published 2008-12-22 · Updated 2009-08-19 · CVE-2008-5703

Mitre

CVSS v2.0

6.2

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5703

Affected Products

Gpsdrive

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5703 · Security Note
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00187.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/32887 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33825 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508597 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/15 · Note
• http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2121124&group_id=148048&atid=770280 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31694 · Note