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CVE-2008-5380

Published: Dec 8, 2008

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

FEDORA-2009-1366

vendor-advisory

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third-party-advisory

x_refsource_SECUNIA

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_SECUNIA

[debian-devel] 20080811 Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

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