CVE-2008-4959

Description

geo-code in gpsdrive-scripts 2.10~pre4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/geo.google, (2) /tmp/geo.yahoo, (3) /tmp/geo.coords, and (4) /tmp/geo#####.coords temporary files.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00187.html

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44759

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30905

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2

http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt

http://secunia.com/advisories/33825

http://secunia.com/advisories/31694

http://bugs.debian.org/496436

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS