CVE-2008-5703: Gpsdrive

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

gpsdrive (aka gpsdrive-scripts) 2.10~pre4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (a) /tmp/.smswatch or (b) /tmp/gpsdrivepos temporary file, related to (1) examples/gpssmswatch and (2) src/splash.c, different vectors than CVE-2008-4959 and CVE-2008-5380.

Affected products

• Gpsdrive Gpsdrive: up to and including 2.10; version 1.32 only; version 1.33 only; version 2.09 only

Published 2008-12-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.