CVE-2008-5704: Gpsdrive

High severity, CVSS 7.6. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

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.