CVE-2008-4987: Xastir

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

xastir 1.9.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (a) /tmp/ldconfig.tmp, (b) /tmp/ldconf.tmp, and (c) /tmp/ld.so.conf temporary files, related to the (1) get-maptools.sh and (2) get_shapelib.sh scripts.

Affected products

• Xastir Xastir: version 1.9.2 only

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