CVE-2008-4959

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-11-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

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.

Affected products

Gpsdrive-Scripts: 2.10-pre4

References

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
http://bugs.debian.org/496436
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/gpsdrive-scripts

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