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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-5703
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-5703

Description:
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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA33825
  Secunia Advisory: SA31694

MLIST
  http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/15

FEDORA

CONFIRM
  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2121124&group_id=148048&atid=770280
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508597

BID
  32887


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