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.
References
- gpsdrive-geocode-symlink(44759) vdb-entry
- FEDORA-2009-1366 vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfire mailing-list
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
- http://bugs.debian.org/496436
- 30905 vdb-entry
- http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/gpsdrive-scripts
- 31694 third-party-advisory
- 33825 third-party-advisory