CVE-2008-4959 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4959
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44759 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA33825 Secunia Advisory: SA31694 MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 MISC http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt FEDORA CONFIRM http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/gpsdrive-scripts http://bugs.debian.org/496436 BID 30905

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