CVE-2008-5704 (GCVE-0-2008-5704)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-22 15:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 20:06
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Summary
src/unit_test.c in gpsdrive (aka gpsdrive-scripts) 2.10~pre4 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/gpsdrive-unit-test/proc temporary file, a different vector than CVE-2008-4959 and CVE-2008-5380.
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