CVE-2008-4959: Gpsdrive Gpsdrive-Scripts

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Gpsdrive-Scripts: version 2.10 only

Published 2008-11-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.