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.
References
- FEDORA-2009-1366 vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20081216 CVE id request: gpsdrive mailing-list
- 32887 vdb-entry
- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2121124&group_id=148048&atid=770280
- 31694 third-party-advisory
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508597
- 33825 third-party-advisory