CVE-2008-5704

HIGH 7.6CVE-2008-5704 · Published 22/12/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-5704 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.6) vulnerability affecting gpsdrive (gpsdrive).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 67.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
gpsdrive gpsdrive	`= 1.32= 1.33= 2.09≤ 2.10`	No fix yet

Description

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.

References

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/15

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