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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4959

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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
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.

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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