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CVE-2008-5703

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.2 Published: 2008-12-22 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Gpsdrive Gpsdrive

Weakness Type

CWE-59

References