CVE-2008-5703 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508597 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/15 http://secunia.com/advisories/31694 http://secunia.com/advisories/33825 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2121124&group_id=148048&atid=770280 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32887 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00187.html