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CVE-2008-5380
medium
Description
gpsdrive (aka gpsdrive-scripts) 2.09 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an (a) /tmp/geo#####, a (b) /tmp/geocaching.loc, a (c) /tmp/geo#####.*, or a (d) /tmp/geo.* temporary file, related to the (1) geo-code and (2) geo-nearest scripts, different vectors than CVE-2008-4959.
References
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00187.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33825