CVE-2008-4959 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496436 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/gpsdrive-scripts http://secunia.com/advisories/31694 http://secunia.com/advisories/33825 http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30905 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44759 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00187.html